374 KABAYENDI AND THE MAKRAKA.

We planted cotton for the first time this year, and from two okkas of seeds we obtained twenty kantar of good cotton, a result which certainly encourages me to go on with its cultivation. J am now going to try rice and indigo. Kabayendi was established about twenty years ago by Debono’s people, who came to this district from Atrush’s station on the Yei. ‘They first settled to the north, in the Abukaya district, but were driven away by ants (termites), and then occupied the old station of Fadl Allah, on the river Embe. In 1877 they removed to this place, notwithstanding its bad water, as the fields near Fadl Allah had been exhausted. The population of Kabayendi is composed chiefly of Makraka and Bombé, some Abukaya, and a few Mort and Mundu. Bari (from Lado) reside in small colonies all over the province. The true Zandé (Nyam-Nyam) are at the present moment very numerous, because Mbio’s brother, Sultan Wando, having been driven from the Bahr-el-Ghazal district by Rafai-Aga’s bad treatment, sought refuge here with all his people, wishing to settle in our district.

I have offered him the unoccupied land to the south of Tomaya, and already messengers have been sent to gather his scattered people and to bring them here. According to the latest intelligence, Mbio himself, after a six months’ war, and after he had destroyed all his ivory, has been captured by Rafai-Aga and Hassan-Aga’s soldiers, and taken to the Bahrel-Ghazal, where he is now in captivity. I was going to visit him, but now my journey will be considerably shortened. I am sorry for this brave warrior !

Wando, well known to readers of Dr. Schweinfurth’s book, is a well-built, athletic fellow; he has a dark skin and a completely shorn head, which distinguishes him from the other Nyam-Nyam, who think so much of their frisures. The rokko trousers of the Monbuttu constitute his only dress. He was accompanied by three of his fourteen sons, all wearing the handsome hide-dress of the Zandé, and tall straw hats decorated with parrots’ feathers. ‘The indispensable trumpeters accompanied them, carrying gigantic horns and trumpets made out of elephant’s tusks and decorated by leopard-skins.

I noticed near Khor Menze, which flows into the Torre near