The Death of Suleiiiiaii.

a good lesson, after which he hastened to send us what was necessary.

Tlie road from the Bahr-el-Ghazal to Farague is void of water during summer. There is only a single well two hours before Farague. The slave traders halt at this well to provide themselves with water, but as it was not possible for us to transport the quantity necessary for all our people, we had to do a three days' journey in the space of two. A short time before I had heard it said that no guide was needed from Farague to the Balir-el-Arab, and in fact the scattered bones of human victims guided us straight to the river. The slaves being mostly boys or girls, these being preferable to grown men and women, as they were more disposed to submit, the greater part died of thirst and fatigue before arriving at their destination ; but still the slave trader did a good business, for thirty per cent, of his human merchandise arrived safely. He acquired a slave for a piece of cloth worth about two francs, and sold him for at least a hundred.

From Farague I Aveut to Lifi, which is a large village belonging to Suleiman. In this jjlace I had put about four hundred men to hinder the disbanded Besingers from harming the natives. Here I was informed that one of Suleiman's rebel chiefs had occupied an inaccessible mountain with about six hundred men, and after having killed two sultans and carried doora away, thought of maintaining himself in that position until Suleiman should have taken his revenge.

Another rebel chief, a certain Abu Mangur, occupied another mountain, so that the communications were interrupted. Here, when 1 believed all was ended, were new complications !

T succeeded in compelling Abu Mangur to lay down his arms, but the other rebel, called Messi, was obstinate. I was therefore obliged to cut off all his communications, and prevent him from descending