Mr. HOLROYD'S JOUTneY {0 Zordtofan. [1837. 172 those already subject to the Viceroy of Egypt; a policy they thought it better to adoptthan to expose themselves to the armual or biennial incursions of his troops for the purpose of seizing them as slaves. I heard that, subsequently to my leanng the Beled-es-Sudan, Khurshid Pasha had concltlded treaties with them, and that they are now subject to Mohammed 'Ali. These Shilluks were fine men; none of them less than six feet high, and many of them several inches taller. They were clumsily formed, their legs being too short for the size of tlle trunk. The heads of some were shaved: the hair of those unshorn was curled and woolly.

Their countenances were harsh and savage, their cheek-bones high, and noses narrow near the root, but broa(l and flattened towards the nostrils. Like the inhabitants of Denkah, the incisors of their lower jaw had been extracted. The only weapons they had with them were sticks, shields, and spears of a rude construction. Some of them wore a single ring of ivory above the elbow of the right arm. Their prince was distinguished from the others 1JY two large rings of solid silver, which he wore as bracelets on his left wrist. They indulge in smoking, but not to excess. They amused us one evening with several choruses and cajtches, wthich they sang in a very pleasing manner, keeping excellent time. They are very expert sportsmen, killing the crocodile and hippopotamus with the same spears which they use in self-defence. At Kajebi, in a double tent, the thermometer reached 112? on the l9th lMarch.

The west bank of the White River is occupied to the N. ancl S. of Kajebi by Hasaniyeh Arabs, whose only other settlement which I observed was opposite Berber. They are generally fine men, a shade lighter than the Sennarese; and their females not so dark as the males. They are social, lively, and gay, and their females particularly fond of their national dance, which they accompany- by clapping of hands and singing.

March 22. At B past 7 A.M., having procured camels at 25 piastres each, I left Kajebi to proceed to Kordofan, by the desert of Habshabeh. Our guide lost his way and took us in a S.W. direction to Turah, where we arrived in 61 hours. The track is over land some portions only of which are tilled; much more might be brought into cultivation, though not all, for some of it is light and too sandy. I noticed the impressions of hippopotami in several places, the first I had seen: they were as much as two miles distant from the present channel, though at the height of the inundation the river passes through temporary channels close to the place where I observed the foot-marks, and there is little doubt but that the animals had been basking in some of these shallow streams which at this season of the year are dry. Turah is a village consisting of a few circular straw huts; there is good water in four