374 KABAYENDI AND THE MAKRAKA. 



We planted cotton for the first time this year, and from two 

 okkas of seeds we obtained twenty Jcantar of good cotton, a 

 result which certainly encourages me to go on with its culti- 

 vation. I am now going to try rice and indigo. 



Kabayendi was established about twenty years ago by De- 

 bono's people, who came to this district from Atrush's station 

 on the Yei. They first settled to the north, in the Abukaya 

 district, but were driven away by ants (termites), and then 

 occupied the old station of Fadl Allah, on the river Embe. In 

 1877 they removed to this place, notwithstanding its bad 

 water, as the fields near Fadl Allah had been exhausted. The 

 population of Kabayendi is composed chiefly of Makraka and 

 Bombe, some Abukaya, and a few Morii and Mundu. Bari 

 (from Lado) reside in small colonies all over the province. 

 The true Zande (Nyam-Nyam) are at the present moment very 

 numerous, because Mbio's brother, Sultan Wando, having been 

 driven from the Bahr-el-Ghazal district by Bafai-Aga's bad 

 treatment, sought refuge here with all his people, wishing to 

 settle in our district. 



I have offered him the unoccupied land to the south of 

 Tomaya, and already messengers have been sent to gather his 

 scattered people and to bring them here. According to the 

 latest intelligence, Mbio himself, after a six months' war, and 

 after he had destroyed all his ivory, has been captured by 

 Bafa'i-Aga and Hassan- Aga's soldiers, and taken to the Bahr- 

 el-Ghazal, where he is now in captivity. I was going to visit 

 him, but now my journey will be considerably shortened. I 

 am sorry for this brave warrior ! 



Wando, well known to readers of Dr. Schweinfurth's book, 

 is a well-built, athletic fellow ; he has a dark skin and a com- 

 pletely shorn head, which distinguishes him from the other 

 Nyam-Nyam, who think so much of their frisures. The roJcko 

 trousers of the Monbuttu constitute his only dress. He was 

 accompanied by three of his fourteen sons, all wearing the 

 handsome hide-dress of the Zande, and tall straw hats deco- 

 rated with parrots' feathers. The indispensable trumpeters 

 accompanied them, carrying gigantic horns and trumpets made 

 out of elephant's tusks and decorated by leopard-skins. 



I noticed near Khor Menze, which flows into the Torre near 



