After a few days, the steamer was repaired and resumed its journey to Khartoum. After its arrival, the mail carrier went to deliver it to Colonel Gordon, but he refused to accept it and instead appointed Amin Effendi, the doctor, as his deputy from the Equatoria province until further orders. Then he left Equatoria heading for Khartoum, where Colonel Gordon issued a decree appointing him governor of the Equatoria provinces. This caused shock and astonishment among the officials who did not believe this man had the administrative or military qualifications for such a high position. It was Dr. Schnitzer who paved the way for him and appointed him to this position. It is not surprising, for Dr. Schnitzer managed to hide his identity and call himself Muhammad Amin. It is not far-fetched for such a hypocrite to follow the example of Dr. Schnitzer, knowing that Colonel Gordon listened to every instigator and slanderer, even if their intentions were evil.

The Story of the Elephants in Equatoria Among the burdens that indicate Amin Effendi's ignorance and lack of original opinion, as far as the sky is from the earth, is that Colonel Gordon had bought several domesticated elephants from the Sudan and sent them to Equatoria. When I was appointed governor of Equatoria, he handed them over to me and ordered me to build a thorn enclosure for them about 1,200 paces from the city of Lado. Every morning, we would take them out of the enclosure and let them graze in the wilderness on the bushes, and they would mix with wild elephants. In the afternoon, they would return to the enclosure, followed by a few elephants or more after they were brought into the enclosure, and they would be killed.