78 Darfur.

Southern Darfur, between Dara and Hofrat en Nalias.

Everywhere, south of Dara, there is plenty of water, except in El Goz, the plain extending for 20 miles south of Ora S'ghir. In the dry season water can be found 12 to 30 feet below the surface in the wadis. Always water in the lake at Taimo, and in the Bahr el Arab.

In the El Halla country are forests of gum trees, ebony, and tamarinds, and many fruit-bearing trees, e.g., the " abu behessa," which bears a sweet orange-like fruit.

Bread is made from dokhn, dhura, koreb, sammu, and other plants.

The Habanieh are the chief inhabitants of all this district ; formerly at war with the Massalit. They cultivate the ground and possess great herds of cattle. Few sheep, but many goats and donkeys. Camels cannot stand the climate. Poisonous fly (tsetse ?) very bad in parts. Much wild animal life : elephant, giraffe, hippo (in the kherif), rhino, buffalo (now extinct?), wild ox* (grey, with white head), wild sheep, katamburo,f tetel and other antelopes—no true gazelle—baboon, wild boar, ostrich, heron, partridge, &c, &c, and much fish and crocodiles in the rivers.

* Abu orf and om boga. t Ox-like animal.