40 RECOLLECTIONS OF FORTY YEARS. 



that even in his day the Ethiopians affirmed that 

 Egypt was one of their colonies. 



" 'The tribes of the Upper Nile still plait their hair 

 as the ancient Egyptians did theirs. The sandals 

 found in the Egyptian monuments are the same as 

 those still used by the natives, and this holds good of 

 the wooden head-rests, the knees, the javelins, and 

 the shields. 



" 'The children are comparatively light-skinned at 

 birth, the colour gradually deepening. The age of 

 puberty commences at about twelve or thirteen, and 

 the women do not bear child after they are forty. 

 The peculiarity of confinements in the Sennaar country 

 is that the women are placed in an upright position 

 against a wall, and that they are often suspended by 

 ropes passed under the armpits, and swung to and 

 fro or well shaken. 



" i None of the travellers or natives whom I have 

 consulted has ever heard of any men having a salient 

 coccyx. 



" { I have heard of some fellatah tribes of a swarthy 

 or reddish colour, supposed to be of Malay origin, and 

 living to the south and west of Darfour. 



" i I shall have the honour of presenting to the 

 Academy very shortly, on the part of M. Heuglein, 

 the complete notice which he has promised me on the 

 zoology of the White and Blue Niles. In the mean- 

 while, I append to this a manuscript map showing 

 the routes followed by M. Heuglein in his recent 



