PROPOSED EOUTE TO TIMBUCTOO. 313 From Darfour to Bornu it would take two days, and dollars and cloth would be required to pay our way.

From Bornu to Mornu, 40 days, and shells needed. From Mornu to El Hausa, 60 days, and shells. From El Hausa to Futo Toro, 60 days, and dollars. From Futo Toro to Timbuctoo, 60 days, and dollars. He gave a glowing account of the countries to be passed through, and the number of slaves that would be given us on the way.

Near Bara we had a good deal of trouble with one of the AYaganda envoys, Kataruba ; he wished to insist upon his servant walking before his camel, carrying a gourd of water, as he did not like to drink the water out of the goat-skins. We would not allow this, and told the boy to mount, but had some difficulty in enforcing our authority, as his master declared he should walk. During the dispute the object of it stood by uncertain what to do and whom to obey, till at last we cut the matter short by emptying the gourd, and then there was nothing to prevent the boy's riding. It would have been cruel in the extreme to have compelled the boy to walk under a burning sun and in the scorching sand, but it took some time to convince Kataruba that in this matter he could not have his own way.

The next six days we had hard marching, but we reached Abou Kurat, which is not far from the Nile,