Zcila and Harrar Acquired. 155 bv the treachery of the Governor, who sold it to the occupied, Khedive. 1874 ' Against these acts the King appealed to Europe, and especially to England, sending as his envoy Colonel Kirkman, a Scotchman, then in the service of King Johannes, but who had formerly been with Gordon in China. This mission had no practical result, and the relations between Abyssinia and Egypt were more strained than ever.

In 1875 the Khedive purchased from the Sultan, for Port of about £15,000 a year additional tribute, the port of dby Zeila, the base from which for many centuries Turk Egypt, 1875. and Arab had unsuccessfully attacked Abyssinia ; and in fact acquired at the same time all the Sultan's nominal rights to the coast country from near Tajureh to a point on the Indian Ocean, including Berbereh, the transfer actually taking place in autumn, 1875.

Annexation of Harrar, 1874.

The province of Harrar was annexed by an expedition Harrar under Raouf Pasha, whom, it may be remembered, jgJJ* 6 '1 ' Gordon had relieved at Gondokoro in 1874. After the death of Emir Ahmed, Sultan of Harrar, mentioned by the traveller Burton, the inhabitants made Khalifa Citra Emir. He was deposed after a three days' reign by Mohammed ; the latter oppressed his subjects, favouring the Galla tribes, and bullying the Mussulmans. The people asked the Khedive to take possession, and in the year 1874 Raouf Pasha, being sent up for the purpose, met with little opposition. He began his government by the unnecessary act of causing the Sultan to be strangled. The Sultan's son went to Cairo to complain, but nothing was done.

Gordon's Expedition to the Lakes, 1875.

Early in 1875 Gordon heard ill reports of Kabarega, 1875. King of Unyoro, who, with the old slave traders, was meditating treachery. He had already cleared his province of all these traders on whom he could lay hands, but 50 of them had escaped him, and taken themselves to the chief above mentioned. Rionga, Kabarega's rival, now received Gordon's support.