195 CHAPTER V.

BAHR EL GHAZAL AND EQUATORIA SINCE 1882.

In the Bahr el Gliazal the first outbreak in favour of 1882. Mahdism occurred at Liffi, on the 18th August, 1882. The people had long been suffering under the cruelty and injustice of their " Danagla " rulers sent from Khartum, and part of the Dinka tribe rose readily under Sheikh Jango to upset the Egyptian Government. Lupton Bey, Lupton however, was equal to the occasion, and, advancing from pfn e the Dem Zubehr (Dem Suliman), towards the end of 1882, he defeated Jango with considerable slaughter at Tel Gauna.

Jango returned with some of the Emir Madibbo's men 1883.

early in 1883, but was beateu again near Liffi. In September, however, he attacked Rufai Aga, Lupton's captain, at Dembo, and massacred him and all his men. The Dinkas then revolted en masse, and blocked the road to Meshra er Rek aud the north, and Lupton, short of ammunition, retired to Dem Zubehr. The last communication from Khartum was brought by a steamer, which arrived thence at Er Rek on the 15th August, and Lupton was thenceforth isolated.

On Karamalla's appointment as Emir of Bahr el Surrender of Ghazal, he summoned Lupton to surrender, and this the 1.°°' latter, after gallantly fighting for 18 months, was obliged, by the defection of his troops, to do (21.4.84). He was christened Emir Abdullah and sent to Omdurman, where he died on the 17th July, 1888.

Thus the last vestige of Egyptian authority disappeared in the Bahr el Ghazal.

The Equatorial province meanwhile, which extended from the Albert Nyanza to Lado (its capital), and included (since 1881) the provinces of Bor and Rohl, and the northern part of Unyoro, was under the charge of Emin Bey (Edward Schnitzer, born 1840), who had been Emm and his ,~ -. x province. (386) 2