There  was  a  boat  on  the  slip  almost  ready  for
launching,  she  was  of  the  pattern  of  the  ordinary
Nile  nuggar,  with  no  ribs,  but  built  of  thick  rough
planks  held  together  by  heavy  iron  bolts.  Emin  had
built  a  good  many  of  these,  and  had  found  them  very
useful,  as  the  two  whale-boats  brought  up  by  Sir
Samuel  Baker  were  somewhat  worn  out  and  unsafe.
There  were  large  gardens  belonging  to  the  officials,
all  round  the  outside  of  the  station,  containing  big
patches  of  peas,  beans,  onions,  garlic,  balmias,
endive,  and  spinach,  and  amongst  these  gardens  were
great  numbers  of  orange,  lime,  pomegranate,  cus-
tard, apple,  guava,  and  papai  trees,  all  bearing
freely.     In  the  swampy  ground  along  the  river's  edge


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i^ere  large  plantations  of  bananas  and  sugar-cane.
For  a  radius  of  two  miles  round  the  station  were  vast
fields,  in  which  the  station  people  grew  ground-nuts,
millet,  red  and  white  dhurra,  tullaboon,  sesame,  and
Indian  com.
All  these  products  did  remarkably  well  here,  and
wheat  and  rice  fairly  so,  but  these  latter  were  not
grown  in  any  quantities.
