Angdo Sudan 43 -Egyptian] INTERNAL HISTORY ] village, and attacked a punitive force at Katfia. In May he was captured, tried, and hanged. The unrest spread to the White Nile province, and took many months to die away . Abdul Bagi, one of his adherents, escaped arrest until April 1914, when, after stout resistance, he was taken and died of wounds soon after.

In 1908 Abu Howara, a fiki, proclaimed the imme diate advent of Jesus at Burdia in Kordofan . The Governor appeared instead, and the fiki was both arrested and discredited . In the same year Abdel Wahab and other Mahdist fikis in Dongola province were detected in plots against the Government. In 1910 Hashmi , who declared himself the Sahib el-Wakt ( “ Master of the Times” ') and his sons gave trouble at Kitiab village, in Berber province.

He was arrested and hanged for murder. In 1910 a fiki among the Shenabla in White Nile province claimed to be the prophet Isa. He was killedin an affray with the local police. In 1910 a Mahdi arrested at Abba Island inthesame province proved to be a deserter from the 9th Sudanese battalion . In 1900 Nigma el Din, a fiki, used the excitement caused by Halley's Comet, the “ Mahdi's Star,” to cause a disturbance at two villages of Taaisha (the Khalifa's old tribe) in Sennar province. He eluded arrest and caused fresh troublein three Fellata villages south of Sennar next year. Heagain escaped, and thus justified his claim to invisibility In 1912 Akasha Ahmed , a fiki, one of Abdul Kader's old adherents in 1908, claimed to be the prophet Isa at Jebel Gedir in the Nuba mountains (the scene of the Mahdi's “ Hegira in 1881 ) . He was killed in fighting In 1915 Ahmed Omar , a Fellata from Sokoto ,also declared himself theprophet Isa at Jebel Gedir, and called on the Fellata villagers of the district to join him . They remained quiet, and heand his small band of followers were slain in attacking the local police. In January 1916 a youth in Halfa province declared himself the destined ruler of the world and attracted adherents . He was suppressed. The [ 3919] E ) )