As regards the shooting of game for sport, a sanctuary and game reserve have been instituted, and the licence with which a sportsman has to provide himself is expensive and only covers the shooting of a limited number of each species, some species being tabooed altogether. (For full details of the Game Laws, _vide_ Ordinance for Preservation of Wild Animals, etc., 1903, and for practical hints, etc., _re_ shooting, _see_ books mentioned on p. 213.) SLAVERY. Slave-running is practically dead, save perhaps in the remotest parts of the Sudan. The Egyptian Repression of Slavery Department is well represented by a number of posts dotted about in the regions most likely to be favourable to this traffic. FORESTS. In the Sudan, north of Khartoum, forests are scarce and of little extent. Scattered trees of “Samr” (_Acacia tortilis_) reach right into the desert, while on the occasionally flooded “Karu” land, between the desert and cultivation, is an open growth of the above with “Selem” (_Acacia Ehrenbergii_), “Sayal” (_Acacia spirocarpa_), “Hashab” (_Acacia Verek_), “Tundub” (_Capparis aphylla_), “Marakh” (_Leptadenia Spartium_), etc. South of Khartoum till about parallel 12° N. the forests consist mostly of belts, usually not of very great width, lining the banks of the rivers and khors. In these belts the most valuable tree is the “Sant” or “Sunt” (_Acacia arabica_), known not only for the strength of its wood, but for the tanning properties of its bark and seed pod, and also for its excellence as fuel, as well as for its value for boat building. Inland, there are open woods of “Heglig” (_Balanites ægyptiaca_), “Talh,” and “Hashab,” or dense thickets of “Kittr” (_Acacia mellifera_) and “Laot” (_Acacia nubica_). It is in this zone that the open woods of “Hashab” (_Acacia verek_), in Kordofan, are carefully tended and preserved against fire for the sake of their gum which is exported as “Hashab Geneina”; the gum from the unprotected forests fetching a lower price as “Hashab Gezira,” or “Gezira,” while that from other acacias is known as “Talh,” as the Talh tree is the chief producer. South of 12° N., where the rainfall is more abundant, the forest on the White Nile is, as far as the northern limits of the Sudd, of similar character, only large tracts have been cleared near the river by the Shilluks, and Sant has completely disappeared and is not replaced by trees of equivalent value. On the Blue Nile the forest changes in character. Not far from the river are numerous gigantic Baobabs (“Tebeldi,” _Adansonia digitata_) and “Tarfa” (_Sterculia cinerea_), while the most abundant trees are the graceful “Silag” (_Anogeissus leiocarpus_) and the Sudan ebony (“Babanus,” _Dalbergia melanoxylon_).