DINKA CATTLE. 161 panions. The songs which they sang in time to the dancing were of the most indecent kind, more debased in character than any we had heard before.

All the Jur women wear skirts of skins, the edges of which are ornamented with bead-work.

A great many different tribes are represented at Djour Ghattas, amongst whom I recognised Bongos, Djours, Gollas, Dinkas, Madis, and Nyam Nyams.

One day a hundred Dinka cattle were brought in as tribute ; they were large beasts with immense horns, but reminded one of Pharaoh's lean kine, having scarcely an ounce of fat on their whole bodies.

It was here that Dr. Schweinfiirth stayed for so many months on his celebrated journey, and here, too, occurred the unfortunate fire which robbed him of so much of his work. We were shown the place where he lived, and some of the trees he planted are still thriving.

The wind at Djour Ghattas begins to blow softly from the north at sunrise ; it increases gradually in force all day till sunset, when, although at that time blowing with considerable power, it suddenly drops, and the nights are quite calm, and often oppressively hot.

Djour Ghattas was the seat of the Egyptian government up to the end of the slave-war in 1879 : but the government in the Bahr-el-Ghazel Province is very different from that which I have described as existing in the Equatorial Provinces.

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