98 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

notewortliy fact that they have discovered this method ; after many inquiries, I am quite certain that it has not heen introduced from foreign sources.

Small discs of shells are strung on strings and are used as money, ahout three yards being the price for a fat goat.

I could find no trace among them of a belief in a Supreme Being, or of a future state. The dead are carefully buried in a sitting posture. It was amongst the Baris that the Eoman Catholic missionaries worked so long, without any apparent result.

During my stay in Lado and the Equatorial Provinces, I had ample means of becoming acquainted with the present form of government. It is distinct from that in existence in other parts of Egyptian territory, and I may mention some of the differences, as I find that there is a very general impression that the whole of Egypt, the Soudan, and even the extreme southern portions of the Egyptian possessions, are under one form of government. This is quite incorrect, the fact being that there is one kind in the Soudan, another in the Bahr-el-Ghazel province, and a third in the Equatorial Provinces ; which last I will now endeavour to describe.

Before Sir Samuel Baker left Egypt, he had established a large imaginary boundary to the immense districts he had annexed to Egypt, but he