[Footnote 78: Arsenic from different parts of Austria is bought in those negro states where gold is found. It is transmitted from Kordofan as far as Bunda.] [Footnote 79: Iron wire and brass wire from the Tyrol and the province of Austria, is in great request in all parts of Africa for the decoration of lances and tobacco-pipes, and also for ear-rings. In some districts the natives wear as many as ten brass rings in one ear.] [Footnote 80: Common cloths from Bohemia termed technically Londerin seconds. The scarlet colours are preferred in Darfour.] [Footnote 81: Glass beads from Bohemia play a very prominent part in the commerce of Africa. In some places the red are in demand, in others again the blue or yellow beads, but where a particular colour does not happen to be fashionable, there is no sale for them even at the cost price.] [Footnote 82: Card counters are in request in most of the negro states, they are worn by the women as an ornament in the head-dress.] [Footnote 83: Narghilé, the glass water-reservoirs of the Persian pipes.—TR.] [Footnote 84: Brick or ebrigh ablution vases, in the form of a coffee biggin; those in general use in the East are made of copper, but those of glass are also frequently to be met with.—TR.] [Footnote 85: Drinking-cups of glass, shaped like our tea-cups.—TR.] [Footnote 86: I furnished Dr. Madden, who was sent by the English “Society for the Abolishment of the Slave Trade,” to Egypt, with the body of the matter of this and the following chapter at his urgent request, and that of several other gentlemen who were totally at a loss for correct information on the slave-hunts annually taking place in the provinces of the Pasha of Egypt. I was the more willing to assist him in this undertaking, as it was the intention of the Society to make representations to Mehemed Ali on this subject, and thus to endeavour to save thousands of unfortunate victims. This and the subsequent chapter have appeared in the second volume of the “British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter,” No. 28, Jan. 13th, 1841.] [Footnote 87: Gasua originally means a campaign against the infidels, and is the same word as razzia so often heard in Algiers, merely differing in pronunciation.] [Footnote 88: Dire.—TR.] [Footnote 89: The information I was able to collect was communicated to the celebrated French traveller, Antoine d’Abbadie, who laid it before the Academy in Paris and the Geographical Society in London; by the latter it was subsequently published in the Athenæum, of 18th January 1840. As regards the White Nile, more accurate information may now have been obtained through the expedition sent in the year 1840, for the third time, by Mehemed Ali, to trace the river to its source.] [Footnote 90: In the _Athenæum_ this place is erroneously called Bab-Belull, its correct name is Cab-Belull.]