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proper service of steam lorries is started. Two lorries, 

 defective in construction and not too well run by tyros 

 in the country, came to grief. There were cart roads 

 to Tonj and on to Rumbek. No one more than I 

 sees the advantage of clearing a road when it is to be 

 used. Dongolauis held the peddling trade in their 

 hands. Some were caught buying ivory and slaves 

 for rifles. The Greeks had some stores in the place, 

 but if the ivory they produced to be sent south was 

 the whole result of their trading, it must have been 

 run at a great loss. The improbability would point 

 to other goods and other outlets. One Greek accused 

 his rival of doing a roaring trade in spirits with 

 natives ; the other accused this one of sending a cara- 

 van of slaves to the north once a month ! Liars both 

 — as to degree anyhow. The grain obtained from the 

 experimental farm, rice and wheat, also the cotton, 

 was produced at enormous cost. A practical agricul- 

 turist explained to me that the choice of locality was 

 no doubt the cause. No native would have dreamt of 

 placing the farm where it was. The landolphia rubber 

 seedlings, of which we grew a lot, did not stand trans- 

 planting. The Jurs extract a considerable amount of 

 iron from alluvial deposits. Their little clay smelting 

 ovens, about three feet high, are met everywhere. The 

 Catholic missionaries, on the road to Tonj, were edu- 

 cating them in the way of profitable extraction and 

 working. Near Wau the game was greatly shot down. 

 The heads secured were tiny. Near the station, how- 

 ever, was a herd of giant eland. When I first came 

 to Wau it was supposed to be a two days' journey 



