South of Fashoda, however, for more than 100 miles along the west bank of the Nile, past the mouth of the Sobat, and extending back many miles into the interior, is the country held by the great tribe of the Shillooks. Their huts in this region are like one vast village. They are a powerful and spirited tribe, numbering over a million souls, it is estimated. They have resisted the Egyptian Government with tenacity and considerable success. Indeed, I cannot say how much of their territory is actually subjugated to-day; but it is probable the Egyptian power is not acknowledged far from Fashoda. The Shillooks are one of the finest negro tribes of which we know anything. They are prosperous cultivators of the soil and great hunters. Although they are greatly exasperated by the wars of the government and the plundering of the passing slave-traders, it is likely that they could soon be led to feel confidence in men whom they found to be neither officials nor slavers. With their light canoes they cross the river constantly, hunting, fishing and raiding on the neighboring Dinkas and Nouers. Although they have been so badly treated by the government and the traders, yet they have learned to discriminate among white men, and it is quite possible that they might be found more open to the influence of Christian missionaries than the tribes farther away from the route of travel. On the west bank of the Nile, north of the Sobat, is a branch of the great Dinka tribe. These people have fared even worse than the Shillooks at the hands of the slavers, and have almost abandoned the banks of the streams. They will probably return with the decline of slave-hunting, if indeed they are not already occupying again their old lands. These are docile and intelligent negroes, and are favorite slaves. The black regiments of the Soudan were mostly recruited from the Dinkas. Like the Shillooks, the Dinkas are pure heathen and great cattle-breeders. The immediate southern bank of the Sobat is now occupied by the Nouer tribe, who have also pushed over to the north of that stream and are found far up its course. They go to the west as far as the Gazelle River and their southern limit is ill-defined. They are a very numerous tribe, but perhaps inferior in intelligence to either the Shillooks or the Dinkas, although Poncet speaks of them as clean, well-housed, and valiant warriors and hunters. The little that we know of the country and people up the Sobat is not encouraging. The land is flat, and in the rainy season marshy. On the banks of the streams are forests of the talch acacia. The people have been hostile, and Col. Gordon withdrew his station from that region before I went to the provinces of the Equator.