310 Seven Yea7s in the Soudan.

Gisella/ Work, work, and again work is the onl}' way to alleviate but not to cure the grief I feel. This very day I must leave this, and to make the effort I must take my courage in both hands.

I hear that the Milanese Commercial Expedition has stuck fast in Abyssinia, where, I know not. If it had gone by way of the Nile, as I advised, it Avould have made better progress, and might have established a business at Galabat ; but there must be the proper men for such an enterprise. Besides honesty, which is indispensable, it needs courage, perseverance, energy and intelligence, qualities not often met with in the same individual. Above all, there must be no chatterboxes or scribblers.

" I have still an idea of exploring the Welle, which is now in my jurisdiction, but probably Gordon will order me to go to Jebel Mara, in Avhich case I must put off the plan to another jDeriod.

" Bagangoi, which ]\Iiani reached, Avas known years ago to the Nubians, who there procured much ivory. But I must speak of Miani's remains, being anxious about the matter. The people I sent to the place where that great Venetian traveller died, found nothing in the grave but a few bones, all else having been destroyed by termites. T possess a document signed by all the Gurguro" chiefs in Munza, which Gisella died at the age of sixteen on the Ttli July, 1890, by accident. She Avas bathing at Trieste in a very rough sea, and on trying to come on shore, she was dashed by a ■wave against the iron railing of the bathing establishment, and leceived such internal injuries, that she succumbed within twenty-four hours, leaving her mother and brother inconsolable. Gisella was a very intelligent and beautiful girl, endowed with uncommon courage. She remembered her father well. — Ed.

Gurguro (stopped ears) oi' Monbuttu. I was therefore wrong Avhen, in my pamphlet " MianP'< Journey to Monhuitu" I expressed the opinion that he died at Numa or Ndoruma in the west of Xiam-Niam. The real place will be Nnma in the south of Munza. See Schweinfurth's map. Etploratore, year III., map No. 3. M. Camperio.