SLAVERY IN THE BAHR-EL-GHAZL. A21 -an answer to every letter asking for the approval of new measures. ‘The fact that this year, the first of real business, I have been able to obtain for the Government a net revenue of between five and six thousand pounds sterling proves that the province can support itself, notwithstanding Gordon’s opposite opinion. Caoutchouc, oil, &c., are not included in this estimate.

January 31, 1882.

I have heard from Dr. Junker again to-day, and enclose his letter, begging you not to publish anything in it which is not geographical. This letter and those from Casati, which I likewise enclose, will, by the exceeding misery which they disclose, . furnish the best proof of what I have just asserted. It will only be possible to produce salutary effects and to suppress outrages in this country when it is separated from Khartum, and possesses an administration armed with all requisite authority. Here I sit gnashing my teeth and wasting my time in writing for permission to do this, that, or the other, which requests lead to nothing, while I might be up and doing. I do not even yet know where my frontier lies on the side towards that nest of slaves, the Bahr-el-Ghazal province, and whenever I send a proposal to Kharttiim, it comes back again without a decision. What use are all the compliments showered on me and the politeness shown me? It is known that you write to me, and that I occasionally publish some information ; hence all this attention. Junker has kept silence hitherto, but when he returns, unless something is actually done soon, he may make some disclosures which will be rather unpleasant for the Egyptian Government. The capture ot slaves, and the slave caravans which travel daily from the southern districts northwards to the Bahr-el-Ghazal territory, and, alas! to Rumbék also, are undeniable facts. When I wrote to Khartum, asking that Wando’s and Kifa’s territories might be placed under my command, so that I might erect two or three military stations there, and be able to render the transit of slaves impossible, I received the answer that the chiefs of those districts would perhaps be displeased if they were annexed to this territory. Naturally one loses all inclina-