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clothed, practise various industries. They prepare furs so well, as to surpass all that is done in that "way in Europe. They dress skins admirably, and make a stuff of the bark of trees with such skill that it seems at first sight to be chamois leather.

Colonel Long- had employed fifty-six days in travelling from Gondokoro to the capital of Mtesa, but the days of march were only thirty-one, while the rest of the time had been lost on account of the rains, and the difficulty of finding porters. The sesame, indiarubber, the sugar-cane, doora and maize, are very abundant and of good quality. Colonel Long was so kind as to lend me the diary of his journey, and with his permission I have extracted from it these brief notices.

But Avhat gave great importance to this journey was the discovery of a large new lake, which discharges its waters into the Nile. On October 20tli the principal chief in Lado decided at last to make me a visit. He was accompanied by about sixty natives, and seemed sad and dispirited. I thought at first that he was saddened bv our occupation of his country, but then he related to me the heavy trials undergone by him in a short space of time. One of his sons had been killed a few months before in an incursion on some neighbours to steal their cattle ; two of his finest cows were dead, and, to complete his misery, he lamented the recent death of his daughter, whom he said he would not have parted with for twenty milch-cows.

Their daughters are indeed a source of wealth for these people, and the grief visible on the countenance of this man had no other cause than that of material loss. For several weeks he had suffered from sleeplessness, only by day could he find a few brief moments of repose, but the thirty milch-cows filing before his disturbed mind wakened him with a start. He had gone to a fakir to be liberated from this nightmare, and though this visit was in vain, it had cost him