They are exceedingly proud and high-spirited, and are remarkably quick at learning.

At Khartoum several of the Europeans of high standing have married these charming ladies, who have invariably rewarded their husbands by great affection and devotion.

The price of one of these beauties of nature at Gallabat was from twenty-five to forty dollars! On the march from Gallabat to the Rahad River I was so unfortunate as to lose my two horses, Gazelle and Aggahr.

The sudden change of food from dry grass to the young herbage which had appeared after a few showers, brought on inflammation of the bowels, which carried them off in a few hours.

We now travelled for upward of a hundred miles along the bank of the Rahad, through a monotonous scene of flat alluvial soil.