Conquest by Mehemet All. 143 In 1786 Adlan was deposed by the Hameg, and the l78G> kingdom of the Fang totally disappears, anarchy prevails throughout the country, and the kings succeed each other in such rapid succession that in the year 1788 four kings successively reigned. During the succeeding 33 years of anarchy the Hameg continued supreme, and under Sheikh Nasser they devastated the northern and eastern part of the Sudan with fire and sword.

In 1819 Mehemet Ali, hearing of the anarchy prevailing 1819 -in the Sudan, and wishing to introduce the benefits of a jie™?j£ n t I,y regular government of civilisation, and at the same time ah.

to occupy his troops, ordered his son Ismail, with a numerous army of regulars and irregulars, with many learned men and artisans, to invade the country.

Ismail reached Khartum without meeting with any resistance, and thence marched on to Sennar. There he was joined by his brother, Ibrahim Pasha, and they together advanced to Fazokl. Shortly after, Ibrahim returned to Egypt, and the report spread that Ibrahim had been killed in the Fazokl Mountains. The Arab nornads immediately rose, but Ismail returned, defeated the rebels, and appointed new Sheikhs. He then went on to Shendi, on the Nile. The Meg (ruler) Nemr (tiger) of that place, wishing to be revenged of all the cruelties and barbarities Ismail had been guilty of, invited him and his followers to a great banquet at Shendi. During the banquet, and while the guests were all more or less {.

sma? intoxicated, forage was piled round the house and set on Shendi.

fire, and Ismail and all his followers perished (1822). 1822. When the news of this catastrophe reached Kordofan. Ahmed Bey, the Defterdar, who had wrested that province fiom the Darfur Sultan, put himself at the head of a large army and marched on Shendi. When he reached Metemma, opposite Shendi, the inhabitants sent to ask for pardon. This was granted. One of the people, however, happening to throw a lance at the Defterdar, the pardon was at once rescinded, and a general massacre took place. The Meg el Nemr, however, escaped, having fled towards Abyssinia.

After this the Defterdar marched to Tuti Island, opposite Khartum, where he again defeated the rebels with great slaughter. He then marched to Wod Medani, near Messalamia, and then returned to Kordofan.

It is said that when Kordofan was conquered it was