Bik TO BUEL. By, exceedingly unpleasant, and which is noticed amongst all the southern tribes, is especially strong in the Akka, the Nyam-~Nyam, and the Monbuttu; it is most perceptible during physical exercise, and after any special mental excitement. Even a lengthened residence in a foreign country, together with extreme cleanliness, hardly diminish the intensity of this smell.

From the top of a mass of gneiss lying near the road to Amadi, I was able to take some compass bearings, which I believe connect my recent with my former work, as also with Felkin’s surveys. The river at Amadi had perhaps best be called Ayi or Hyi, for the names Rodi and Dok are only applied locally. With regard to the name Bahr-Jemid, it is -derived from that of a small Dinka village, past which the river flows.

3. From birt to Buri—TuHE River LAv.

GNEISS HILLS—GRASS STEPPES—JEBEL YERE AND ITS CAVERNS--PILE-DWELLINGS OF BUFI—THE SLAVE-TRADE—A LADY VISITOR.

THE rain prevented our departure yesterday, and to-day the outlook was not much more promising; but it ceased at last, and we started in good time. After crossing Khor Barra we entered upon hilly country, covered with bush and intersected by many small khors. The latter were dry, but the high sand-dunes on their southern banks showed how great had been the force of the rain-water which had rushed through them to the Ayi. A long broad row of round gneiss domes and ridges, often of considerable height, stretched over the whole country. Small woods of acacias had obtained a footing round many of them, and numerous rock-hens (Ptilopachys ventralis) sheltered in their clefts and grooves, and were already busy pairing. Elephants too, to judge from their fresh spoors, must be very abundant. ‘The steppe woods, in which groves of Anogeissus are found, form a refuge for numerous parrots. We saw quantities of tamarinds heavily laden with fruit, and