Seven Years in the Soudan.

against him at Khartoum by Raouf, Gigler, and Macropoli is violent and provoking. Imagine that, after Gressi departed, a letter came from Emin Bey, announcing that an order from the Governor-General of the Soudan deprived Gessi of his command, and confided, to Emin Be} himself, the provinces of Rohl, Lado, and the Equatorial regions ! The same evening I sent an express to Gessi, which happily arrived the morning before the steamer left Meshra. Gessi wrote that all should be continued to be carried on according to the orders he left. He Avould not recognize as a fact any change that Avas not communicated to him by the Central Goverinnent.

" r fear that Gessi, embittered by all this, Avill leave the Soudan, Avhich would be a real misfortune. At Khartoum he will take care that the Viceroy sends orders to the authorities to protect me in the execution of niy exploration of the Welle. I am almost completeh' restored to health, and count upon going to Rumbek in a few days ; there the air is pure and not poisonous like at Jur Gattas during the rainy season.

" Mr. Editor, I speak frankly. I must carry on an exploration which is neither easy nor short. I do not speak of material danger, but of the deficiency of scientific means. It is an affair of unexplored countries, whether of the Welle, or of the region bordering the Congo. It is, however, necessary to fix the latitude and longitude, to ascertain the heights, in order to exactly determine the line of the Avatershed. As far as Bakangoi all is well, for Petermann's maps will serve as a guide, but beyond that, either to the west or to the south, the maps mark nothing. I Avrote about this to-day to Gessi at Khartoum, and I believe he Avill find my observations reasonable. I should like to describe to Gessi and you, as exactly as possible, the new countries I shall traverse. The choice of instruments I leave to you and Gessi, only begging that they may