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my plans appear to you practicable, to proceed to put them 

 into execution as far as possible without delay. I may appear 

 to you rather egotistical, but does not every gardener seek to 

 protect the flowers which bloom under his care ? 



Our country has remained quite quiet at present. About six 

 hundredweight of ivory lies in the magazines, and a quantity of 

 tamarinds, ostrich feathers, Butyrospermum fat, Arachis oil, 

 hides, &c, are waiting to be disposed of. My men have 

 erected a new station on the Kibi, and another party is going 

 to occupy the road between it and the station of Wadelai, so 

 that the ivory may now be sent from the station of Kiibi in 

 Monbuttu to those of Tambira and Logo on the upper Kibali, 

 and thence past the new station on the Kibi to Wadelai, 

 whence the steamer will bring it to Dufile. In the east, also, 

 the station of Tarangole is finished, and that of Lobbor, which 

 will join the line of Fajulli, Facher, Farshile, is in course of 

 erection. The flora of the tablelands in the east differs entirely 

 from that of this neighbourhood, and is much more similar to 

 that of Kordofan. 



I brought rather rich zoological collections from my last tour 

 to the south-south-east, and, as far as I can decide with my 

 small supply of literature, I shall be able to send to Dr. Hart- 

 laub, my amiable correspondent, eight or nine new species 

 of birds and two new mammals. I should like to have 

 collected insects, but I had no pins. As for anthropological 

 objects, I have some crania to send to Europe. Should you 

 like some for Virchow ? I have made a good number of 

 measurements, among others six to eight of Akka (£ and J), 

 all according to Broca's scheme, which M. Vossion * kindly 

 gave me, with a splendid portable apparatus for measuring. 

 This is very different from the conduct of the Government, for 

 I have twice applied to it, and written privately to Stone 

 Pasha to get some instruments I wanted — particularly a small 

 altazimuth instrument, or at any rate a theodolite and chrono- 

 meters — either on loan or to be paid for out of my salary : of 

 course they have neither time nor inclination in Egypt for 

 such matters. It does not signify, however, for I have already 



"* He was at the time the French Yice-consul in Khartum, and is at present French 

 Consul-General at Philadelphia. 



