74 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

After feasting my eyes on these beauties, I had a good appetite for the capital new milk and meat which I obtained at this station. There is here a boat-building yard, and it is the headquarters of the carpenters for the province. At Khor Aio the aneroid reading was 28'22 (1600 feet), and at the highest point of the road between Dufli and Khor Aio, 27-97 (1840 feet).

Early the next day we crossed Khor Aio in the ferry-boat, and a rapid march through ]oarklike country brought us to Lahore, a well-fortified station on the top of a small hill, where, beside the soldiers, four large elephants were drawn up to receive me, and as I passed they made a salaam by lifting up their trunks and trumpeting.

Flocks of wild geese and guinea-fowl were seen all along the river-banks, and the natives were busily engaged in preparing the ground for sowing the seed. The implement used for this purpose is a hoe with a handle seven feet long, having a fork at the end. The hoe, made in the shape of a halfmoon, turns up the earth to the depth of six or eight inches, which is all that is required in this fertile soil. The corn is put in the ground with great care, the women and children sowing each grain separately.

Between Khor Aio and Lahore, and indeed as far as Mugi, a station twenty miles farther on, the road was flooded in many places, so that we were obliged