298 GONDOKORO TO OBBO. 



these journeys, which were undertaken for the control of the 

 Government service, the inspection of the officials and of the 

 work accomplished, and the protection and improvement of 

 the Negro population, have also contributed to the pecuniary- 

 advantage of the Government is, I think, proved by the fact 

 that I have delivered into the magazine here, about ten 

 hundredweights of ivory and five or six pounds of ostrich 

 feathers, which were presented to me by Negro chiefs in 

 return for the presents I gave them. 



