merchandise on the second of Safar of the same year. Then we passed through the conntry of the Gangiya, until we arrived on the seventh of the month at the land of the Jur, where Ali Amiiri had a station called Ashur, named after the Sheikh of the District. Now at this time there were in the Bahr el Ghazal many merchants, besides Ali Amuri, scattered thrc>ughout the country, each one with a zeriba* to which he could fly for shelter and into which he could put his goods. Those most in demand were beads of all sorts and colours, cowries, and tin. These are the ornaments for the men and women, and these the inhabitants preferred to silver and gold, exchanging them for ivory, rhinoceros horns, ostrich feathers, rubber, iron, copper, and other products of the country.

QUELLING OF A LOCAL REBELLION IN 1857.

"I continued to live with my friend Ali Amuri assisting him in his commerce. But there had passed but a few months when the natives rose against the merchants, envying them, their possessions. At length, in the year 1857, they collected from all directions and stormed the zeribas, killing some of the merchants and carrying off their goods as trophies. They also attacked the zeriba of Ali * All enclosure surrounded with a thorn hedge.