"ALL ALIVE, or 157 long practice, exact aim is taken, and the villainous body shoots invisibly under the water. A scream, and the woman is gone, to be held under viater, perhaps stowed in a hole, and devoured at leisure.

On the roof of a disused building is the roughly stuffed hide of one monster who had haunted the khor to the villagers' terror, and who before he was shot had in a short space of time killed and eaten three women.

The native population has greatly increased in this neighbourhood, and representatives of various tribes have made more or less permanent residence here. Large fields of dhurra greet the eyes on coming near Renk, and the number of tukls was testimony to the results of sympathetic government in this mudiria.

In the khor might be seen Arab fishing-boats, whose owners found ready sale for their captures. The abundance of fish in the White Nile is always a matter of wonder. Particularly up in the " sudd " districts the river surface is dotted with rings where the fishes are rising, in countless and unceasing numbers.

One variety, the aigel, in particular, is perfectly eatable by Europeans, and is almost tasty, attaining remarkable size. The fish-market beinor the river-bank, the Arabs are enabled to keep their wares fresh by refraining from killing, and by tethering them by a rope through the lip to the boat. *' All alive, O !" on the Nile is a cry with foundation in fact.