228 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

effect the orders given under the tree," and the war began. The letter giving this order was found among Suleiman's papers.

There is a very dense native population round LifS ; Togoi to the east, Inderi to the west, and the Sheer to the north. The men have a little cloth wound round the body, but the women still wear the primitive bunch of grass. The Togoi women are very much like monkeys, extremely ugly ; the others have quite a European cast of features.

The Eiver Eaja is a third of a mile from the station, its banks are two hundred yards apart, and it overflows them ; but at this time the stream was nearly dried up, there being only twenty yards breadth of water. The bed of the river is of very fine white sand, and from this point the soil begins to be of a sandy nature.

By the time we had reached Liffi, Saati EfFendi's shyness had somewhat worn off, and we got to like him very much. He was a strict Mohammedan, but at the same time far more enlightened than the Arabs usually are, and he was the first I have met who, with apparent sincerity, admitted the evils of slavery. He was well read in the few books possessed by Arabs, and had not such childish ideas as are generally found current among them ; he even went so far as to admit that the earth might be round, and he seemed anxious to live up to the highest standard inculcated in the Koran. Although his