Binlca; Nuer. Vl\ The goat is of the Ethiopian species, but somewhat larger.

The great object of the Dinka is to acquire and maintain cattle, to which, they pay a kind of reverence. A cow is never slaughtered.

The only domestic animal killed for food is the goat, which scarcely represents the thirtieth part of the value of a cow.

The breed of cattle is, however, degenerating. They are incapable of carrying burdens or of travelling.

The yield of milk is miserable. Neither camels, asses, mules, nor horses are available in Central Africa, and the only animal by which these countries can be opened up— i.e., the elephant— is being quickly exterminated by the demand for ivory.

Agriculture is carried on to a great extent. Agriculture. The corn cultivated is the largest variety of the cereal ; it takes nine months to ripen, and the stems become hard and woody.

There are also cultivated three kinds of beans, earth nuts (arachis), earth peas (Voandzeia suhterranea), sesame, yams, and Virginian tobacco.

The character of the vegetation resembles that of Kordofan. The most common trees are the Seyel acacia, hegelig, tamarind, Christ's thorn, cappara, &c.

In the dry season water is obtained from wells, the Water, residue of the great pools formed in the rainy season. These are teeming with filth and animal life, and cause the intestine worms among the sheep and cattle.

Among the swamps the miasma is a sure source of fever. There are numerous snakes in the Dinka country, but these are never met with in Bongo Land.

Nuer.

The Nuer are a warlike tribe somewhat formidable to Country. the Dinka ; they occupy a territory on the banks of the lower Sobat, and in the country between this river and the Bahr el Ghazal, on both banks of the Bahr el Jebel (Upper White Nile) Rivers. They are somewhat hemmed in between the Dinka and the Shilluks.

In habits they resemble both these races, but differ in dialect.