Senndr—Kawa ; Fungi. 95 by large caravans (slaves, &c.) from Darfur to Kordofan.

Country bare and sandy for the western two-thirds of the journey. Level throughout. Water supply on road from Sennar westwards :— Miles from Senn&r.

1. Jebel el Ma, Moia, or Moye—large well 23 2. Jebel Sakati or Segadi—many water holes 38 3. Waliya village—wells . . . . . . 65 4. Kubosa ,, ,, .. .. . . 8l3 5. G-amusa „ „ . . . . 89 White Nile—river 100 Besides wells in the numerous villages between the Blue Nile and Jebel el Ma.

(b) Dak el Fungi.

Description. The Dar el Fungi (or Funki) comprises the country between the White and Blue Niles lying to the south of the Dar Sennar. It is a vast steppe-like expanse, dotted with isolated hills here and there, of which many hold water during the dry season. Fertile in parts in the rainy season, during the rest of the year the steppe is dried up and bare, except for occasional woods of mimosa, &c. There seems to be a fair amount of small game, and lion and hyena spoor are met with on occasion.

The inhabitants are mostly of the Hameg negroid tribe, whose religion is a thin Mohamedanism overlying a groundwork of fetish-worship. There are also settlements of Burun and Jaalin.

Few Europeans have traversed this country. Pruyssenaere made a fine journey in 1863 from Karkoj southwards, almost to the Sobat, but has left little record of value.

The land takes its name from the Fung, a Darfur tribe which long ago overran the country and took possession of it. They are a fine race, but are now closely intermingled with the Hameg and the Burun.

About N". lat. 10° 15', the fertile grass and woodlands of the Dinka form the southern boundary of the Dar el Fungi, a boundary often overrun by the inhabitants of the steppes in search of slaves and plunder.