442 Seven Years in the Soudan.

Daramali Pasha, have been dismissed from their posts and subjected to a court-martial. At the request of Mr. Maletand the German Consul-General, the Government lias nominated Count Delia Scala (an Italian) to the post of Chief of the Office of Siut, with extraordinary powers.

" Delia Scala will have five hundred men with whom he will traverse all the oases as far as Siuah, occupying them with a military system of light ])olice. Under the Ex-Emperor Maximilian, Count Delia Scala Avas head of the Gontro-ijiiei'llhi ; he is a man of great energy.

" Yours, " g. schweinfdeth."

Arrival of Cai'Tain Casati in Bahk-el-Ghazal.

Letter from Captain Casati, special correspondent of the Esploratore : — "Wau, September, 1880.

" To the Editor of the Eqiloratore.

" Finally, after a delay of quite four months in Khartoum, I left the capital of the Soudan, on the 4tli July on board the steamer Safia for Bahr-el-Ghazal. The navigation was rendered difficult b}' frequent obstructions (sett) of the Ghazal River, so that we reached the station of Meshra-el-Rek only on the 5th August. Courteously received by the Delegate of Meshra, who had precise and formal orders on my account from his Excellency, Gessi Pasha, I removed to the village, Avhere I staA'ed till the 18th. On the morning of the 19th, accompanied by the men sent by his Excellency, I mounted a good mule, and took the path, which, passing b} Jur Clattas, leads to "Wan. The villages (helle) are frequent along the road, but all of recent construction, for the negroes had