216 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN arrowroot. We have besides, near the Bahr-el-Ghazel, an immense forest producing gum arabic equal in quality to that of Kordofan. I have tried cottonplanting, and have attained excellent results. We now manufacture here ' damoor ' (cloth used by the Soudan women) superior in quality to that of Sennaar. We produce iron in sufl&cient quantity for local use, and before long we shall be able to supply the arsenal at Khartoum. This country produces vegetable butter ; 300 quintals of honey have been sent down this year to Khartoum, and much bees'-wax collected. Our copper-mines, situated to the south of Darfour (Hofrath-en-Nahass), enable us to barter that metal for ivory with the Nyam Nyams. The slave-dealers used to have a troop of 800 Nubians in the regions of the Bahr-el-Ghazel, and by armed force they collected annually from 1600 to 1700 cwts. of ivory. I have under me only 280 Arabs, who are scattered in the villages of the Bahr-el-Ghazel and among the Nyam Nyams, and yet, without exercising the least pressure upon the inhabitants, they have this year collected 400 quintals of ivory. The means of transport was the great difficulty which remained to be surmounted, but that may be considered as accomplished. The river Djour is quite navigable during the rainy seasons. Large boats of 300 ardebs are being built on one of its tributaries ; each boat costs us here $80, and after discharging