Anglo -Egyptian 91 1 LABOUR $ dura ( millet) has been grown, and whither the popula tion migrates en masseduring the season to sow and reap crops grown without the drudgery and expense of working the primitive sakia and shaduf ( see p. 117 ). Seventy -five per cent. of the population of Berber are engaged in agriculture, and the remaining 25 per cent. incamel-breeding, transport, and cattle-raising . The people seldom emigrate,but there is a certain amount of immigration of Arabs from across the Egyptian border . The cultivated area is about 130 square miles ( 80 per cent. artificial irrigation and 20 per cent. rain fall). The agricultural population works out at 1:17 per acre . In this and other provinces north of Khartumthe foreign population is chiefly mercantile.

In the Red Sea province the climate is quite different from that of the Nile regions. The hills are frequently surrounded by mists and heavy clouds, which are precipitated as rains in the winter, and burst into violent storms in the summer, when the Khor Baraka becomes swollen and inundates some 50,000 acres of land at Tokar . Sixty -five per cent . of the population is employed in agriculture, and 25 per cent. of the remainder in camel-breeding, transport, or cattle- and sheep-raising. The cultivated area covers 85 square miles ( 8 per cent . rainfall, 92 per cent . inundation ), and the agricultural population amounts to about one person per acre only. The province, therefore , is mainly dependent upon outside labour for the cultiva tion and picking of the cotton crop . The resident population at Tokar is about 2,000, but during the cotton season the number is increased to 10,000. Of this total , 5,000 are drawn from the populationof the province , the remaining 5,000 being West Africans (Hausa, Bornuese, and Fellata) who , passing through the Sudan their way to Mecca, seize this opportunity of obtaining the wherewithal to pay for their passage across the Red Sea, and to accomplish their pilgrimage. Piece-work being unpopular, a daily wage of from 3 to 5 piastres ( 7 d. to1s. ) per day is * ] paid. The picking is done by boys and girls. [3919] H on