STATISTICS OF AMADI. 409 



The various factors which are at work here may be seen from 

 the following statistical abstract : — 



I. Danagla * (hutterie), or irregular soldiers in Govern- 

 ment employ ........ 40 



II. Danagla in or near Amadi, who are not employed by 



Government t ....... 96 



III. So-called Dragomans, farukh, lasinger, &c. $ . . 319 



455 

 According to these statistics, the unproductive population 

 in and around Amadi numbers, say, 455 men, and if we 

 add to these their concubines, lawful wives, and wives of the 

 second rank, and the female slaves, boys for carrying guns 

 and water-bottles (rekwa), children, &c, a total of about 

 four on an average to each man, these " lilies of the field " 

 must amount, at the lowest estimate, to 2200. When 

 I use the expression ushurie, i.e., tithe-payers, it must not 

 be thought that these people pay taxes of a tenth or even 

 of a thousandth part to the Government — I at least know 

 nothing of such payments. They pay nothing ; they only take 

 whatever they can lay hands on ; and the euphemistic name 

 has been given to them by the person who drew up the report 

 which I copy, not by me. That this man knows how to round 

 off a neat sentence well is proved by a note which he adds after 

 the names of the fakis : — " Hali an es sdnae munhdtcia lillali 

 te'ala," i.e., "Without any occupation, depending upon God the 

 Almighty for support." Now, as the population of the Amadi 

 district is, at the most, from eight to ten thousand, the crying 

 evil of this state of affairs is obvious. No cattle are kept — that 

 was prevented long ago ; there is scarcely any hunting ; so that 



* Danagla is the plural of Dongolaui = Nubians from Dongola. They were 

 once the armed employes of the Khartum merchants, and when the trade in ivory 

 was taken over by the Egyptian Government they were enlisted as irregular 

 soldiers. A company of them is called a hutterie. " Dragomans " are freed 

 slaves, who are employed as police-soldiers, and negotiate with the natives. The 

 basingers are armed slaves who accompany the traders as an escort ; their gun- 

 boys are called fa/ruhh, which name is also given to mercenaries hired as 

 irregular troops at Khartum. — R. W. F. 



t They included 27 Danagla without any occupation, 46 ushurie (tithe-payers) 

 13 pedlars or traders, 1 tailor, I boatman, and 8 fates. 



X Namely, 145 Monbuttu, 76 Moru, 51 Nyam-Nyam, 38 Mittu, 6 Bongo, and 

 5 Agar. 



