NATIVE INFORMATION". 151 



Nursvar). Chief Makambo's land, Mahagi, lies to the south, 

 then M'songua, Magungo, and Kafatasi, where Liir ends. 

 Northwards along the lake and river the districts succeed one 

 another as follows : — Chief Boki's country, Fanyumori ; Chief 

 Okello's country, Fanegoro; Chief Roketto's country, Faroketo ; 

 the country of Fabongo (just now without a chief) ; Chief 

 Matum's country, Foquate ; and lastly Chief Wadelai's country, 

 Koche. These are the very names which Baker gives on bis 

 map for the country to the north of the Victoria Nile, near its 

 mouth, and therefore I can only suppose that the men he 

 interrogated did not understand him correctly, with regard to 

 the river at any rate, or that he incorrectly interpreted the bad 

 Negro Arabic in use here. Had I only heard the names once, 

 I should have kept silence, but they were repeatedly confirmed 

 during our marches by land from Mahagi to Wadelai. The 

 existing maps of the upper Nile abound in so many errors, 

 that it seems desirable to prepare a more correct one of that 

 part of the river which lies between the Victoria Lake and the 

 Sobat. For the present I will only refer to Kidi, which ought 

 to be called Lango, and to Chippendall's route, which, like a 

 chameleon, assumes a new appearance with every map that is 

 published.'"" 



From the hills in this neighbourhood, Chief Arera's country, 

 Nyelea, can be seen, beside a lofty mountain of the same name ; 

 from there due west lies ArejVs country, Angal, adjoining on 

 the north the district Jabakot. Javule, which comes next, is 

 four days' journey across, and extends to some mountains, from 

 which a large river flows down to the west. I give this infor- 

 mation exactly as I have received it from the lips of Negroes, 

 and will now check their statements by the following facts. 

 Soldiers without impedimenta reach Wadelai from Mahagi in 

 two days' rapid marching ; they sleep in Faroketo, which is 

 about half-way. Cattle despatched from Mahagi station reach 

 Wadelai in five days, travelling each day from sunrise to mid- 

 day. Therefore the distance between these two stations, 

 following the lake and the river, may be assumed to be fifty 



* Sheets 2 and 8 of E. G. Ravenstein's Map of Eastern Equatorial Africa, 

 published by the Royal Geographical Society, will be found to present the whole 

 of the information available at the time it was published (1883). 



