Shipwreck.

121 for pay would carry a letter of mine to Anfina. Two natives presented themselves and set out. In this letter I apprised Wad-el-Mek of my arrival with articles for the station, which he must see about fetching. Rain in the afternoon.

The place we occupied being'too cramped, I determined on the following day to go a little further down. The natives brought provisions in abundance.

On the 5tli of April I learned of the return of the two men sent to Anfina. At eleven a.m. two interpreters of AYad-el-Mek announced to me that their chief Avas going to give battle to the people of Kaba Rega. on the peninsula described by me before, and added that he would be at the mouth of the river in two days.

Next day I ])repared to encounter Wad-el-Mek, and while he is on his Avay to Magungo I Avill give some particulars about his country, its inhabitants, and its products.

I can certify that from Berber till twenty miles above Dufile there is no tract of country more beautiful than this as far as Magungo. I do not speak of the interior, not having seen it, but of the territory intersected by the river. There are no longer the arid mountains of Lado and Dufile, so poor in vegetation, and we see no more the miserable seribe of half-starved and lazy inhabitants. There I found a country and a people who could soon be civilized ; accustomed as are these natives to respect authority, they yield obedience to their chief, and pay without demur taxes in kind and in person. The as]iect of their villages is pleasing and expressive of order, and an agreeable domestic life ; articles in wood, kitchen utensils, the dressing of skins and manufacture of cords and fishing nets, are very well executed ; the skins are better sewn together than in Russia and Turkey. Their costume is composed of one or two skins of antelopes or goats.