The Death of Gessi Pasha.

while the expense would not exceed £3,200 or £4,000. I have already said that the want of means of transport paralyzes all traffic, but as the Jur flows towards Niam-Niam and the territory of King Mbio, and is navigable for great part of its course, one might build stations near the rapids, and maintain communication by means of boats such as I am building at "Wau.

" These two products, cotton and caoutchouc, are alone sufficient to render any realm prosperous, for it can be foreseen that ivory will become scarcer every year, as the elephants that furnish the precious material are being entirely destroyed by the hunters, and in a few years will only exist in the dense forests of Central Africa.

" We have here, now, crops of tamarinds as excellent in quality as those of Darfour, and a large quantity was left on land for want of space on the steamer that takes us to Khartoum. Among the other products of this region are copal, palm oil, arrowroot, and incense from Niam-Niam.

" The oil, or rather the butter, of the arachis, although not adapted for exportation, the expense permitting no competition with that from the AYest Coast, might be utilized on board the boats, in the arsenal, and in the manufacture of soap. Also honey is, without doubt, one of the most valuable products of Bahr-el-Ghazal and Niam-Niam ; and if even a small price for every hundred-weight were offered to the sheikhs, in a short time double the quantity of that furnished from Abyssinia might be procured.

" In concluding this review of the improvements I have introduced into Bahr-el-Ghazal, I must add that I have neglected nothing in procuring for the troops the means of subsistence indicated by the rules, and not yet furnished by this country. Thus I have had more than fifty thousand bananas, pomegranate, and lemon trees planted along the banks of the rivers and torrents. In the orchards there are now found,