British Political Ambitions Egyptian Sudan What it was and what it became?

In 1883, Stewart Pasha submitted a report to the British government, his government, describing Egyptian Sudan. He stated: "The land that the Egyptian fellahin endure and call 'Sudan' is a very large country, vast in its extent. Its length from north to south—that is, from Aswan to the Equator—is about 24 degrees, or 1650 miles. Its width from Massawa to west of Darfur is about 22 degrees, or 1200 to 1400 miles. If we start from the point of Berenice on the Red Sea coast in the east, along a line parallel to the 24th degree, to an indeterminate point in the Libyan Desert, which is intersected by the 27th degree east of Greenwich. From there, a line extends south to the west until it connects in the north of the Darfur region to the west. Then it proceeds approximately straight south to the 11th or 12th degree. From Mputu, it heads southeast towards Lake Albert Nyanza and Lake Victoria Nyanza, and then ascends north to the east, encompassing the region of Harrar. It then reaches the Indian Ocean at Cape Gardafui, and follows the Red Sea coast until it returns to Berenice." The British Foreign Office printed this report and attached the map that (1) Stewart was Pasha Gordon's deputy governor-general of Sudan. Gordon sent him in September 1884 from Khartoum to Egypt to request reinforcements for his rescue. He boarded the steamer Abbas with the British Consul, Mr. Baring, the French Consul, Monsieur Herin, Hassan Effendi Hassan, an employee of the English telegraph, and 19 Greek merchants, along with Tringian soldiers and artillery. The steamer Abbas towed four small boats carrying a group of Jewish, Syrian, and Greek merchants. The steamer struck a rock in the cataracts of Wadfu, and the armored vehicles faced the village of Hiba Sheikh Al-Salamat. He deceived them into thinking he wanted to join them and offered camels for them to ride. They went to his house where they were all slaughtered. (2) The borders of Sudan were at the second degree beyond the Equator.