STATISTICS OF AMADT, 409 The various factors which are at work here may be seen from the following statistical abstract :— I. Danagla* (hutterie), or irregular soldiers in Government employ . : : 40 II. Danagla in or near Amadi, Shap are ae employed ie Government T : ; F 96 III. So-called Dragomans, Carli Risin ger, , &e, t ‘ a 310 455 According to these statistics, the unproductive population in and around Amadi numbers, say, 455 men, and if we add to these their concubines, lawful wives, and wives of the second rank, and the female slaves, boys for carrying guns and water-bottles (rekwa), children, &c., a total of about four on an average to each man, these “lilies of the field” must amount, at the lowest estimate, to 2200. When I use the expression ushurie, 1.e., tithe-payers, it must not be thought that these people pay taxes of a tenth or even of a thousandth part to the Government—I at least know nothing of such payments. They pay nothing; they only take whatever they can lay hands on; and the euphemistic name has been given to them by the person who drew up the report which I copy, not by me. That this man knows how to round off a neat sentence well is proved by a note which he adds after the names of the fakis:—“ Hali an es sénaé munkdta’a lillah teala,”’ v.e., ‘“ Without any occupation, depending upon God the Almighty for support.” Now, as the population of the Amadi district is, at the most, from eight to ten thousand, the crying evil of this state of affairs is obvious. No cattle are kept—that was prevented long ago; there is scarcely any hunting; so that * Danagla is the plural of Dongolaui = Nubians from Dongola, They were once the armed employés of the Khartim merchants, and when the trade in ivory was taken over by the Egyptian Government they were enlisted as irregular soldiers. A company of them is called a hutterie. ‘ Dragomans”’ are freed slaves, who are employed as police-soldiers, and negotiate with the natives. The basingers are armed slaves who accompany the traders as an escort; their gunboys are called farukh, which name is also given to mercenaries hired as irregular troops at Khartim.—R. W. F.

+ They included 27 Danagla without any occupation, 46 ushurie (tithe-payers) | 13 pedlars or traders, 1 tailor, 1 boatman, and 8 fakis. £ Namely, 145 Monbuttu, 76 Mort, 51 Nyam-Nyam, 38 Mittu, 6 Bongo, and 5 Agar.