chap, ix.] BACHEETA ,, THE UNYORO SLAVE. 383 
tliat I have not a supply of paper for botanical speci¬ 
mens, as many beautiful flowers appeared at the 
commencement of the rains. Few thorns and no gums 
form a strong contrast to the Soudan, where nearly 
every tree and shrub is armed/' 
“ Aug. 13 ill .—I had a long examination of a slave 
woman, Bacheeta, belonging to one of Koorshid’s men. 
She had been sent two years ago by the king, Kamrasi, 
from Unyoro, as a spy among the traders, with orders- 
to attract them to the country if appearances were 
favourable, but to return with a report should they be 
dangerous people. 
“ On her arrival at Faloro, Debono’s people captured 
her, and she was eventually sold to her present owner. 
She speaks Arabic, having learnt it from the traders’ 1 
people. She declares that Magungo, the place of which 
I have heard so much, is only four days’ hard marching 
for a native, direct from Faloro, but eight days’ for 
the Turks; and that it is equi-distant from Faloro 
and from Kamrasi’s capital in Unyoro. She had heard 
of the Luta N’zige, as reported to Speke, but she knew 
it only by the name of £ Kara-wootan-N’zige.’ 
“ She corroborated the accounts I had formerly re¬ 
ceived, of large boats arriving with Arabs at Magungo, 
and she described the lake as a ‘ white sheet as far as 
the eye could reach.’ She particularized it as a pecu- 
