NATIVE INFORMATION. I5I Nursvar). Chief Makambo’s land, Mahagi, lies to the south, then M’séngua, Magungo, and Kéafatasi, where Lir ends. Northwards along the lake and river the districts succeed one another as follows :—Chief Boki’s country, Fanyumori; Chief Okello’s country, Fanégoro; Chief Rokétto’s country, Farokéto ; the country of Fabongo (just now without a chief); Chief Matum’s country, Foquate ; and lastly Chief Wadelai’s country, Koche. ‘These are the very names which Baker gives on his map for the country to the north of the Victoria Nile, near its mouth, and therefore I can only suppose that the men he interrogated did not understand him correctly, with regard to the river at any rate, or that he incorrectly interpreted the bad Negro Arabic in use here. Had I only heard the names once, -I should have kept silence, but they were repeatedly confirmed during our marches by land from Mahagi to Wadelai. The existing maps of the upper Nile abound in so many errors, that it seems desirable to prepare a more correct one of that part of the river which lies between the Victoria Lake and the Sobat. or the present I will only refer to Kidi, which ought to be called Lango, and to Chippendall’s route, which, like a chameleon, assumes a new appearance with every map that is published.* From the hills in this neighbourhood, Chief Arera’s country, Nyelea, can be seen, beside a lofty mountain of the same name ; from there due west lies Areja’s country, Angal, adjoining on the north the district Jabakot. Javulé, which comes next, is four days’ journey across, and extends to some mountains, from ‘which a large river flows down to the west. I give this information exactly as I have received it from the lips of Negroes, and will now check their statements by the following facts.

Soldiers without impedimenta reach Wadelai from Mahagi in two days’ rapid marching; they sleep in Farokéto, which 1s about half-way. Cattle despatched from Mahagi station reach Wadelai in five days, travelling each day from sunrise to midday. Therefore the distance between these two stations, following the lake and the river, may be assumed to be fifty * Sheets 2 and 8 of E. G. Ravenstein’s Map of Eastern Equatorial Africa, published by the Royal Geographical Society, will be found to present the whole of the information available at the time it was published (1883).