KAYONGA. 189 having seen one himself, a good model of a steamer.

I was much pleased with the Golos ; they seemed to be very bright and intelligent ; in fact, I think they would comjDare very favourably with any natives I have seen, excepting the Waganda. Kayonga gave us a quantity of " ruhm," a silky kind of tree cotton (Enodendron anfraetuosum, Schweinfiirth), which we found useful for stuffing our saddles ; the quality appeared to me to be good enough for spinning, as the staple was nearly two inches long, and it twisted readily and well. Kayonga seemed to have a good idea of trade ; having been told by Gressi of the use of indiarubber, he immediately set his people to work to collect it, and had already several hundredweights to send down to Khartoum. He had also begun to cultivate cotton, seeds having been given him by the Pasha, and the first crop had been gathered, to his great delight. I feel confident that were these people only treated as rational beings, they would rapidly rise in the scale of civilisation. They require, as do all Africans I have seen, a just and firm Government ; but this granted (and is it too much to ask from a professedly civilised power?), the natives would appreciate the advantages of such a rule, and soon become both useful and profitable subjects of the Egyptian government.

We left Dem Idris at 2 p.m. on November 22, and had a fourteen hours' march to Dem Suleiman.

Sixteen small streams and one river—Kuru—where