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from 3 to 5 millions, about balf that number being Tors ; but it is 
impossible to obtain exact information oil this point. 
It is not my intention to give any account of the political history 
of the country, as that may be found in a learned paper by the late 
Dr G. Hachtigal, entitled “ Darfor, die neue ZEgyptische Province,” 
Petermann’s Mittheilungen f 1875, p. 281. Some further information 
may be obtained in Dr Perron’s Voyage au Darfour , which is the 
translation of an Arabic work by Mahommed Ibn Umar or 
Mohammed el Tunsi. His notes on the manners and customs of 
the people are wonderfully correct as far as they go. 
Darfur was taken by the Egyptians in 1874, after the battle of 
Menowatzhi, when Zebehr Pasha conquered and killed king Brahim, 
but the province was not really subjugated until after my visit 
there, for Haroun held out in the Marah mountains till 1881, when 
he was killed by the Egyptian troops under Slatin Bey. 
The Fors are pure negroes, and are the most northerly tribe in the 
eastern part of Central Africa. They form one of the three great 
negro Mohammedan kingdoms, the other two being Wadai and 
Bornu. 
I was unable to spare the time for making detailed measurements 
of the For people. The average height of twenty-five men was 
1 73 *0 ; of fifteen women, 168’7. Pulse, 72; respirations, 19. 
Temperature in the axilla, 97° *2 Fahr. 
The following measurements of my boy’s head are given as better 
than nothing. The numbers correspond to Virchow’s table : — 
1. Height, ......... 155 '2 
2. Greatest breadth from glabella backwards, . . . 20 '0 
3. Greatest breadth above ears, . . . . . 14 '2 
4. Length of face from root of nose to lower border of chin, . . 12 ’1 
5. Breadth of face from one foremost edge of cheek bone to the other, 11 '6 
6. Breadth of face from one angle of lower jaw to the other, . 10 '4 
7. Greatest breadth between zygomata, „ . . 13 ‘0 
8. Length of nose from root to junction of nose and upper lip, . 5 3 
9. Height of head from chin to vertex, . . . . 22 ’6 
4. Height of head from meatus auditorius to vertex, . . . 13 0 
15. Distance between two ears at top of meatus auditorius, . . 12 ‘4 
16. Upper breadth of nose from one canthus to the other, . . 3 ‘4 
17. Lower breadth of nose on cheeks, . . . . . 4 ’4 
18. Length of nose from root to tip, . . . . . 4*6 
19. Breadth of mouth, ....... 5‘9 
20. Distance from meatus auditorius to junction of nose and lip, 
middle line, . . . . . . . . 11 ’8 
