Egyptian Sudan 38 "The regions that were ruled by Egypt until the Mahdist Revolution." It is known that Emin Pasha was ruling the Equatorial Province until January 10, 1889. According to Gordon's map, the region on the left bank of the Nile in Surumest, which is the area connecting Lake Victoria Nyanza to Lake Albert Nyanza, was part of the Lado Province. It is in this region that the English flag now exclusively flies, and in 1884, the Egyptian flag had no partner in those parts. Gordon's map also indicates that Heard, Zeila, and Berrere were Egyptian territories. Gordon stated that its garrison consisted of 43,400 soldiers, and the expenses for Berrere were 17,229 pounds, for Zeila 5,061 pounds, and for Heard 43,229 pounds. Massawa was subordinate to Suakin. The reader has learned from our previous discussion that England treated Sudan as a possession without an owner, continuing to take from it and give to it until 1895, that is, until it agreed with Germany and Italy and firmly established itself in Egypt. It then returned to asserting Egypt's rights. Egypt was not taken into account in all of this, to the extent that its agreement with the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs on January 19, 1899, was not ratified by the Egyptian nation and its parliamentary body. This was the agreement that made England a partner with Egypt in Sudan, and legal scholars agreed that this agreement was contrary to charters and laws.