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all armed with double-barrelled guns, and are as a rule good shots. They are very reliable troops, have no fear, and fight like lions ; and, what is most noteworthy, they can live on two or three handfuls of grain a day, and never grumble for their pay, however long in arrear it may be.

The G-overnor's house is well built of burnt brick, as are the large magazines. The streets are wide and airy, a striking contrast to the miserable lanes and alleys of lyack and Eohl.

The first night we slept in the Pasha's house, and the next day took possession of the huts allotted to us, and actually paid a visit to a shop. It was the first we had seen since Mr. Wilson left Zanzibar, and since I left Khartoum ; and it was with great pleasure that we made some purchases of coffee, sugar, tobacco, a bos of good cigars, a few articles of clothing, some dried fruits, and a tin of French biscuits. Also at Dem Suleiman we had fresh butter, a luxury we had not been able to indulge in for many months. The prices were only 150 per cent, higher than in Khartoum.

The Waganda envoys we were escorting, gave us some little trouble here, for they imagined that they had arrived in England, and wished to set out on their return journey. It took some little time to convince them of the mistake. They had been six months on the road, and Mtesa told them that they would be two years away, speaking of European