110 CHAPTER V.

BAHR EL GHAZAL COUNTRY.

The Southern Provinces.

The Southern Provinces in former days, up to 1878, included four mudiriehs, as follows :— 1. Bahr el Ghazal.—This mudirieh was vaguely denned, but may be described as enclosing the entire district watered by the southern tributaries of the Bahr el Arab and the Bahr el Ghazal Rivers. Its eastern boundary was the River Rohl.

2. Lado. — Comprising all Egyptian stations in the country, from Bor* southwards, bordering the Bahr el Jebel, and extending to the most southern and southeastern parts of the Sudan then under Egyptian control : i.e., the southern boundary was the Somerset Nile to Mruli and the northern snores of the Albert Nyanza; the eastern boundary was about 33° E. long. The chief portion of the mudirieh therefore lay on the east bank (v. p. 101). The northern boundary was subsequently (1882) extended to the Sobat district* (inclusive) and the White Nile between the mouths of the Bahr el Ghazal and the Sobat.

3. Eohl.—The country between the left bank of the Babr el Jebel and the Rohl River, bounded on the north by the Bahr el Ghazal, and on the south by— 4. MdkaraM.—Which comprised the country between the latitude of Lado, the Nile, Congo watershed, and the Bahr el Jebel, from Lado to the Albert Nyanza.

Makaraka was in 1878 merged into Rohl, and Rohl was in 1881 merged into Lado, the "Equatorial Province " thus formed being placed under Emin Bey's jurisdiction.

* Formerly belonging to the Mudirieh Fashoda.