Egyptian Sudan 10 -and at the same time English soldiers were raising their country's flag over Egyptian fortresses. On June 3, 1884, Hether concluded an agreement with the Negus, to become regarding the region liberated without the consultation or opinion of the Egyptian government, and a local government was established there under the presidency of Abdullah Muhammad Abd al-Shakur. As for Massawa, which Turkey handed over to the Khedivial government in 1866 in exchange for 16,000 pounds to be paid annually, it was a province extending from Ras Qasr on the Red Sea, where the province of Suakin ended, to Hilla Rahita at the Bab al-Mandab strait, and it extended inland to Sidrat near Kassala, and is now called Eritrea. The Red Sea was purely Egyptian, with the Gulf of Aqaba and the fortress of Al-Wajh, which the Egyptians built and maintained until '89. On February 6, 1885, the Egyptian garrison was withdrawn from Zeila and returned to Egypt, and Zeila and Berbera were granted to the English. What is even stranger is that Egypt is still paying tribute for these lands taken from it to Turkey. The Lausanne Conference decided that Egypt would continue to pay this tribute until 1855. *** As for the Egyptian forces in the Sudan at the time of the Mahdist revolt, according to the official census, there were 1900 in Dongola, 2170 in Berber, 7480 in Khartoum, 2360 in Sennar, 1610 in Qallabat, 8000 in Giza, 2000 in Qadarif, 39400 in Kassala, 9200 in Ambidib in Senhit, 34700 in Harar, 5830 in Kordofan, 48734 in Darfur, 8869 in Bahr al-Ghazal, and 26319 in Equatoria. The total number of the Egyptian army in Sudan was 40,490, with 12 steamships in its service, and the number of auxiliaries with the army was about 20,000, and the number of officials was about 30,000.