208 Seven Years in the Soudan.

me most in regard to this young man Avas, that unlike tlie majority of his caste, he was quite disinterested, lie had never seen the Gazelle river, nor had he ever left the capital of the Soudan, or purchased either ivory or slaves, so that he could give me no information about his seriba, excepting what he knew by hearsay. I had procured for myself a splendid horse of pure Arab race, which had belonged to Ibrahim, the late Sultan of Darfour, Avhile Mangrios Effendi and Dr. Zucchinetti mounted two asses.