145 CHAPTER XVllI.

TRADE OF THE SOUDAN WITH ITALY.

On the dabaLia — Assuan — Korosko — Tributes — Deartb — Trade witb Italy — Tamarinds and gums — Calisto Legnaiii — Lombroso — Spada — Departure.

October 19fJi, 1877. — Departure for Cairo on the splendid daliabia Aliria. At tlie mast-head waved our Italian tricolour, presented by the ladies of Milan under the presidency of the Countess Eliza Borromeo.

October 2th. — We have navigated ten days already towards the capital of Nubia ; but a few days separate us from Assuan. Our route is Khartoum, Fazoglii, Kaffa, etc.

November 14tJi. — "We are at Korosko, at the threshold of the great desert of Atmur. We set out tomorrow with a caravan of fifteen camels. Our journey as far as Korosko need not be described, since we followed a route already well-known. We have had a good reception everywhere, both from the Egyptian authorities and from the Europeans who are found in these scattered villages of the Nile.

At Assuan we were received very kindly by Mr. Dingley, agent of the house of Milion, who paid us a thousand kind attentions.

December 26th. — We have arrived at last at Khartoum. Grordon, to whom we had letters of recommendation, was away, and we were obliged to telegraph to the consul-general of Italy at Caria, L