Andedo-Sudan 49 Egyptian ] PROVINCIAL HISTORY > constantly disturbed . The Nuba inhabitants, perse cuted remorselessly by the Dervishes, have lastingfeuds with the Arabs, and equally among themselves, and , trusting in their well-nigh impregnable and inacces sible rocky mountain fastnesses, honeycombed with galleries and caves, remain distrustful and often defiant of Government, a traditional hostility reaching back to the days of Mehemet Ali . All the moun taineers are now well armed with rifles obtained by raid and trade from Dervishes and Arabs .

Scarcely a year has passed without some disturbance with these hillmen. They enjoy a fight,and the most slender pretext is enoughto provoke a raid on a neigh bouringmountain ; they are , however, said to be contin nally taunted by their women with “ not being the men their fathers were . ” Hence the history of the period is that of one long series of punitive expeditions to the different jebels to enforce the maintenance of order . and , if possible, respect for the new Government . The years 1908-1910 and 1914-1917 were especially full of such expeditions, the restlessness of the latter years being certainly in part a reflex of the alarmist rumours concerning the situation in Egypt provoked by the European War. The list of such disturbances and patrol visits , often accompanied by stubborn, if briet , fighting, in which at times Arab sufferers from Nuba depredations have joyfully co -operated with the Government police and troops, includes those at Jebel Buram (1908-1917), Dagig ( 1910, 1913), Heiban ( 1911 ) , Krongo Bakhait (1911), Tagoi ( 1910, 1911 ), Tira el-Akhdar ( 1914 , 1915 ) , all in Talodi district ; Daier ( 1904 ) , Eliri ( 1906 ), Nying Nying (1906 ), Katla Karun (1910 ), Shat el-Safia ( 1904 ), Miri (1915 ), and other hills in Kadugli district ( 1913 ) , and in Dilling district, theworst of all, Dulman (1914 ), Fanda (1908 ), Kadaro ( 1906) , Katla Kidu ( 1908, 1909), Mandal (1904, 1914 ) , Sabei ( 1914 ), Tima ( 1909 , 1910 ) , and Nyima, the most formidable hill group ( 1906 , 1908, 1914, 1916 , 1917 ), whose inhabitants were finally reduced to submission for the first time in their his >