DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS 5 Where the European comes in is, of course, in constructive enterprises, or undertakings involving large tracts of ground and requiring considerable capital, and it is in these directions mainly that occupation for young Europe will open.

Certainly the contemplated supply of water to the Ghezireh from the Blue Nile will provide opportunity for cotton - growing on a suitable scale, though the quality of the product, as at present placed on the market, requires considerable improvement. Some classes of rubber-producing trees are native to the Bahr-el-Ghazal, and the fitness of its conditions for the varieties generally favoured is now being tested.

Still, the education of the natives proceeds apace ; while the Greeks—merchants, speculators and contractors—are omnipresent and make the country their home, so that the field for Europeans proper will more or less follow the lines of that of Egypt, though under more trying conditions.

Year by year, under the fostering care of the British Mudirs, production increases and methods improve, and in due course—though "hustle" is unknown in the Sudan—it will take rank as a highly important source of supply.

It has often been charged as a shortcoming of Great Britain that her traders insufficiently study their markets, so can it be wondered at that the careless Sudani, who for thousands of years have been content with primitive appliances and insouciant inexactness, find difficulty in appreciating