128 UGANDA AND TUE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

Egypt to reward the important slave-dealers, and he is now in a higher position to the east of the Nile. Achmet Hassen had a very bitter feeling against Gessi Pasha on account of his vigorous opposition to the slave-dealers, and told us many tales of him. He told us about the murder of King Munza, whose name is so well known to readers of the ' Heart of Africa.' Niyangari is now king over Munza's country, but he will probably share the same fate as his predecessor, who was killed by some of Yussef's soldiers.

At Madi we first heard that Ismail Pasha, the Khedive, had been deposed, and had been succeeded by his son, Tewfik Pasha. The people did not seem pleased at the news, as they do not approve of a son taking his father's place during his lifetime. It is strange how quickly news travels in these uncivilised regions, it having taken less than ninety days for the intelligence to arrive from Cairo.

At this place we were offered eunuchs, for it seems that the fakirs there wish to rival those of Tuaisha in the abominable trade. The prices asked for them were of course high. We heard that several chiefs who had resisted the slave-dealers had been mutilated in this inhuman manner, and had then been buried alive up to the neck, and so left to die ; water and food being put near them to increase their agony.

It was difficult to restrain one's indignation at the recital of such deeds, but we were powerless to do