312 KEDIBA TO BITI.

Danagla), and shatyalin-zilla (gun-bearers), all of whom are ready to be armed in case of war, or razzias, and are prepared to murder and to pillage. In times of peace these people make their captured slaves work for them, and should they not be able to cultivate sufficient food, they oppress and pillage the settled native population. The following are the exact statistics :— Resident Danagla, as under:— Dragomans, &., as under :— Having no employment . 5 27 | Mittu ; -: : . 38 Ushurie (tithe- ea : ; 46 | Mort ‘ : : : : 76 Traders . : : 13,.| Agar : : 5 Tailor : : : ‘ : I Ny am- Nya am (Zande) : : 51 Boatman . : : : ; 1 | Monbuttu. 3 : ae 2, Faki : : : , ‘ I | Bongo 3 6 89 319 In Government employ . : 40 129 The unproductive population consists thus of four hundred and forty-eight men; and if to these be added lawful wives, concubines, children, boys for carrying arms, slaves, &c., at the rate of at least five to each man, it will be found that about three thousand people live at the expense of the Negro inhabitants of the district, who number from ten to fifteen thousand. In explanation of the presence of so many Monbuttu and Nyam-Nyam, it may be mentioned that after every raid into those districts large numbers of slaves were brought back, who were ultimately left to their own resources, as no employment could be found for them. In order to get rid of this rabble, J immediately gave orders that all people having no definite occupation were immediately to leave the country, and the agriculturists have engaged not to oppress the Negroes, to pay a yearly tax of a hundred piastres, and, in case complaints should reach me that they have oppressed or badly treated the Negroes, they will be at once expelled. Those persons following any trade will also be compelled to pay a fixed tax and to submit to the | same regulations. One /aki has been taken into Government employ as a schoolmaster ; the others are to return to Khartum. The number of Government officials in this district is exactly forty, distributed over four or five small stations; if this small number has been sufficient to terrorise the whole country, one