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ants and a small wood-worm. The streets are all wide and straight, and surrounding the station there is a broad promenade ; a clear space of thirty yards being kept between the houses and the fortifications. Outside the walls there are large gardens ; and, as well as the ordinary Arab vegetables, the banana and large numbers of European vegetables and flowers are being introduced by Dr. Emin. One eucalyptus-tree has already reached the height of twenty-five feet ; it will be a blessing for Central Africa when this tree spreads over it ; for, in addition to the beneficial influence it will have on the health of the country, its valuable timber will supply a long-felt want. Irrigation has to be performed, and is done by the shadoof.

There are three gates to the station, at which sentries are mounted night and day, the gates being open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. No gun is allowed to be fired near the station from sunset to sunrise, unless as the signal of an attack. At 5.30 a.m. the bugle sounds the reveille, and soon after " light your fires," and at 6 a.m. the muster-roll is called and the gates opened. The soldiers then drill, and the women begin to sweep the streets. At 8.30 all, excepting the sentries, turn out to work in the fields, to draw water, or to fetch wood ; and the dew being by that time dried up, the cattle are sent out to graze. Work lasts till 11.30, when there is an interval for rest till 2.30 p.m. : it then continues till