BAOBAIi TKEES. 2,j7 Defterdai" Bey's cruelties, -were made most neatly out of dollars slightly alloyed with eopper ; and it was these i'ujritives who introduced among these tribes some culture, and civilisation, and also cotton and onions. Besides the Theresa dollars, one also meets here thalers of the Emperor Francis, which from the eagle, or rather from its feathers, are called Abu Kisch, but these are not so well liked as the former.

In spite of the Iladdenda hovering about the camp, we went to a gisser, an* hour's journey south from here, to look at a Baobab. On a small hill, where a large ravine touches on the Gisser, there is ono towards the south-south-east, and some others about tJie edge of tlie Gohr at the foot of the hills ; but neither here nor in Saliderath nor Gedehn, do they reach tlie size we had seen them elsewhere?

in higher regions. AVe had never before heard that these gianttrees were to be found here, although my brother had often sat under the shadow of a fallen one, of which the stem had a circumference of eighteen feet, and was thirty feet to the branches.

Its bark is like that of our birch ; outside it has a line white rind peeling otf in strips ; beneath this, the real nourisliing Ijrown bark, and below that the substance of the tree, fine nets of fibres, that lie on one another in lamina the thickness of a finger. The marrow-reed of it is Acry large, and Avhen fresh and green makes a good salad. The stem suddenly ceases, and finishes off in small horizontal branches ; the fingerlike leaves are all small, and the crown poor compared to the stem. The bright green woolly fruit resembles longish gourds, the shell of which is easily broken, and the interior is filled with brownish beans, as hard as stones, which lie imbedded, without any regular order, in a white substance. This white substance melts in the mouth, and has a pleasant sourish taste. The fruit is more than a foot long, and half as thick. Tlie older trees are generally rotten at heart, but, from their cork-like elasticity, not easily felled, and difficult to burn. From the fibres of the wood are made rahat, baskets, and ropes. From the White Nile I brought with me a sample of these fibres prepared for use, Avhich in fineness did not yield to the best flax, and in durability far exceeded it. The gazelles have incredibly increased; on hij return to the camp my brother shot three, but the Otru (Antelope t2