GOVERNMENT. 43 had but a few days before left their native hills; —but why? Because several Europeans were in his suite. No such orders were left in Kordofan ; the stipulated number of five thousand slaves were delivered to a man. I was the only European at that time in Kordofan, and the governor condescended to request that I would not mention this circumstance in Europe. The country, in fine, could only be relieved and gradually raised from its present degraded state, by sending a governor to Kordofan who would act, not upon private interest, but on the interests of the state and people : in fact, as a man, as well as a diplomatist.