Anglo-Egyptian ] PROVINCIAL HISTORY 47 Fellata, Fur, Taaisha, and others. Public security has been good, crime rare, and service in the police corre spondingly popular.

Sennar .---Capital from 1905, Singa. A railway ex tension to this place from Sennar is wanted . On the Abyssinian frontier, and in the remoter districts of Dar Fung (where Soda post was established in 1903) , the Tabi hills, and farther south where the administration has not yet reached, there have been not infrequent disturbances, as in 1905, 1910 , and 1917. Themore settled northern portions on and near the Blue Nile are prosperous. In 1902 revenue nearly balanced expenditure. There were small fanatical outbreaks in the Gezira in 1904 and 1910 , and Fellata immigrants in 1916 gave cause for anxiety also on this score. Food and employment in the bad years , 1913-14, were were plentiful , and attracted many temporary immigrants from the north and west. There has been archæological excavation at Jebel Moya and Segadi, which gaveuseful employ ment. The Gezira irrigation project involves adam at Makwa , on the Blue Nile south of Sennar, and a canal ( see p . 120 ) . The latter was begun in 1914,but all was suspended by the European War. There is a good deal of malaria , and a little of the fatal kala azar . in the province. The people of the south are most primitive, and still largely unknown.

Red Sea . - Called Suakin province up to 1906 . Capital, Port Sudan , formally opened on April 8,, 1909. A credit balance was first shown in 1911. On January 17, 1912, the King and Queen visited Port Sudan and Sinkat .' In this province, first of all in the Sudan, a civilian was appointed Governor ( in 1908 ). Railway extension from Suakin to Tokar is desirable (see p. 84) .

Kassala . - Frontier problems with Eritrea and Abys sinia have always called for much attention . Sonie Since this date , the Seventeenth of January has been observed annually throughout the Sudan as “ King's Day " and a general holiday.

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