102 The Equatorial Province.

vince here embraced all territory where it was found advisable to establish stations garrisoned by Egyptian troops ; its most easterly districts were in the Lattuka country between lat. 3° 30' N. and 4° 30' K, and in the neighbourhood of long. 33° B.

The southern boundary was marked by the northern shores of Lake Albert Nyanza, the Somerset River, or Victoria Nile, as far as the station Mruli, and the territory of the King of Uganda, which lies to the north-west of Victoria Nyanza.

Sir Samuel Baker had, before he left Egypt, constructed three military stations, Gondokoro, Fatiko, and Foweira. He had been unsuccessful in establishing a station at Massindi, in Unyoro. On the east, the mountain spurs and ridges, which touch upon the river between Lado and Dufile, are bordered on the south by wide-spreading prairies and marsh-lands, intersected by numerous watercourses (kliors) and dotted over with isolated hills.

Former Stations and Communications. The district just described used to be held for the Egyptian Government by military stations, each with a garrison of 10 or 20 men, and at one and a half to three days' journey apart ; the principal ones being as follows : — Gondokoro, Okkela, Loronio, Tarrangole, Agaru, Fadibek, Obbo, Laboreh (on the Bahr el Jebel).

To the south of the hilly country, there were the stations Fadyellu, Eatiko, Eabbo, Ealoro, Dufile, Wadelai (the last two are on the river), Foweira, Magunga.

Description. From Gondokoro eastwards towards the station Loronio, the country, for the first few miles, is a sandy flat, and then further to the east is succeeded by low hills of iron clay mixed with quartz, which gradually rise into the mountain spur known as the Lokoya. This group is composed chiefly of grey granite, and has many prominent peaks. Numerous watercourses run northwards ; a great number of these are dry except during the rainy season, whilst others contain a certain amount of water all the year round, which is left standing in pools and depressions in the lower ground. This water is, however, frequently