Captain Casati.

377 clothed in a long shirt reaching below the knees.

They cultivate cotton and weave a grey cloth called daiimr. The Avell-to-do dress in Indian cotton of bright colours, but they never cover their heads.

" From November to the end of April the river Delgauna is quite dry, but during the rainy season it becomes about two hundred and seventy feet wide and twelve feet deep, with a current running four and a half miles an hour. When the waters subside the Mandalese go fishing, and preserve the fish by drying, smoking, and packing them in balls, for use during the rainy season. Among the fish they catch, I know of only one which has a good flavour ; it is called by the natives hagara, and in form and taste resembles the bass or wolf-fish.

" I thought that after Dr. Junker's departure I should be able to take some rest, for the fever had greatly weakened me. It was not severe fever ; on the contrary, very mild, but it lasted sixteen hours at a time. I could not rest, though I was so greatly in need of it. An express arrived to inform me that those robbers of Atots, betAveen Lau and Agar, had committed all sorts of depredations, stopping the post to Shambe, and killing an interpreter ; in fact that they were masters of the road, and all communication was impossible. Some time before, the same Atots had committed similar crimes, and I sent them a warning, which seemingly had little effect. Encouraged by previous victories over the slavers, they hoped to lord it over them as before, and by their conduct defied us to fight. I sent about three hundred men armed Avitli guns to make a simple demonstration, but my people were obliged to retreat on finding that they were facing thousands of Atots, who would have the advantage of the high grass, which remains green the whole year round in these marshy districts. I arranged an expedition on a more solid basis, and assembled a thousand combatants armed with guns, and a