At Lado.

auotlier cow, he therefore appealed to me whether I could find a medicine that would cure him. I was about to administer a good purgative, when the Major Suat Eifendi dissuaded me, for fear that the unhappy man might go mad.

The inhabitants of Lado had much to suffer at the time of Sir Samuel Baker. Sir Samuel landed one day with three hundred soldiers, surprising the natives, who were far from expecting such a visit. He seized twelve thousand oxen and coavs, and at the same time carried away all their doora. From this time the country grew poorer and poorer, and many years were necessary for it to regain as many cattle as at first, its only source of wealth. Among the officers of Baker's expedition, Ismail Aga had distinguished himself, the same who was now with me at Ladu. He and the soldiers narrated facts of such cruelty, committed at that time by the Governor- General, that the pen refuses to describe them.

The population belongs to the race of the Bari ; they are tall of stature, but of unexampled laziness. They came every day to our camp to beg for a little doora to satisfy their hunger. I tried employing them to carry wood or cultivate the ground, but they rebelled at the least fatigue. They go absolutely naked, and this made us wish to clothe the lazy fellows. I presented their sheikh with some clothing, but they came back again naked as at first ; it seemed to be too troublesome to them.

The carnivorous birds, such as vultures and hawks, were so numerous and so tame, that they ran about the camp all day like domestic fowls. In spite of the great numbers that we killed, they did not desist, and I was obliged to cease shooting, being persuaded that all the powder in the arsenal of Khartoum would not have sufficed to destroy them.

In the river there are also many hippopotami and crocodiles ; the former come out at night and prowl around the tent.