Ne imeem sO rE WEST OF THE BAHR-EL-JEBEL, 1. From LADO, on THE WHITE NILE, THROUGH NYAMBARA TO Kepipa, IN THE KEDERG COUNTRY.

OFF ON A HOLIDAY !—A SWAMPY TRACT—A DEFEAT OF THE DANAGLA— KHOR KODA AND ITS FLOODS—A NYAMBARA DANCE—A NYAMBARA VILLAGE—ARRIVAL IN KEDERO.

WirTH almost the same feelings that fill the heart of a schoolboy when the first day of his holiday has begun, I left Lado, with all its heat, behind me on the 15th of September 1881, bound this time for the north, to inspect the old mudirié (Government department) of Rol. Immediately behind Lado there extends a trough-shaped depression edged with thickets (running, on the whole, from south to north), which is swampy in parts, owing to the large amount of rain that has fallen this year, and in other parts sandy and covered with impenetrable bushes of thorns. It harbours numerous lions, so that the traveller has to be very wary. A delicious scent is given off by millions of yellow and pink acacia blossoms, which, together with Balanites, Zizyphus, Randia, and similar thorns, flourish in such sandy flats, forming at the same time a favourite resort of the Fringillide, which swarm in this region. On clearings in the midst of this chaos of thorns are situated the little hamlets of the Bari chiefs, Yalo and Mari, which together form the district of Nyori. They were enclosed in hedges of _ blossoming euphorbia, and surrounded by extensive yellow sandy stretches and numerous fields of durrah, the second crop this year. The eleusine was still small, and the Lubia had hardly . sprouted. Large swarms of geese enliven these fields, and