In a journey from Khartoum southward into the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, or from Port Sudan to Khartoum, the traveller is very much impressed with the luxury of the train in which he travels through the wildest scenery, comprising dense prickly bush, dreary wastes of sand, and rocky hills. Native children run away screaming on the approach of a train. In the journey from Khartoum to the Red Sea one encounters the Hadendoa people, who make themselves appear very tall and wild by allowing their hair to grow perpendicularly in a huge bush on the top of the head. In Uganda and British East Africa the traveller may have the experience of having his train charged by a buffalo, rhinoceros, or elephant, who mistakes it for some powerful rival, come to settle in the tropical forest which he has enjoyed undisturbed for so many years. [Illustration: 1, 2. Throwing-clubs from the Nile Valley. 3. Pot from which victims for sacrifice were made to drink a magic draught to “kill” their souls, and thus prevent their “ghosts” from returning to punish their murderers. 4. Conventional hoe-blades used as money (Upper Nile). 5. Small shield of the Hamites, west of Victoria Nyanza (Uganda). 6, 7. Old and modern Masai spears. 8, 9. Fighting bracelets (Upper Nile). 10. A Dorobo elephant harpoon (East Africa Protectorate). The arrow shaft fits loosely into the haft, which falls away when the animal is struck. 11. Spear of the Hamitic tribes. 12, 13, 14. Pottery vases blackened with plumbago. One is in the form of a gourd (Baganda, Uganda). 15. Ivory armlet, Shilluk tribe (Upper Nile). 16, 17. Tobacco pipes (Upper Nile).] The savage peoples of East Africa are in many ways much more advanced in civilisation than the native tribes of Australia. The latter are simple hunters, possessing no clothing, no dwellings, no knowledge of metals, pottery making, or basket weaving. On the other hand, native inhabitants of East Africa have left the Stone Age far behind, and almost everywhere a knowledge of iron ore, smelting, and manufacture of spear-heads has been acquired. Ancient stone implements are found in all parts of Africa, but it is generally supposed that knowledge of iron came to the “Dark Continent” at a fairly early date in the history of civilisation. Everywhere the Negro is an agriculturist, whose women folk cultivate the yam, maize, or banana, whereas a simple hunting tribe in Australia will rely entirely for vegetable foods on what can be collected in the way of wild fruits and berries.