ABUSE OF TAXATION governor of Khartum sent money regularly to Cairo, no one there cared by what means it was obtained. By accident the Khedive Isma'il once appointed a man, who was personally both honest and God-fearing, to be Governor of Khartum, but the natives did not profit; this Governor committed his territory to the care of Provi-A WOMAN OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF THE SHEKII OF BAGRAWIYA.

dence, but took every opportunity of increasing the taxes, and in one year he sent to the Khedive 100,000 in dollars. All this money must have been squeezed out of the -wretched fellahin of the Sudan, and if this sum was actually paid by the Governor, it is easy to imagine how much besides must have been squeezed out of the people by the officials who collected it. In the course of our talk the shekh produced the papers signed by General Gordon, already referred to, and asked me to give them to Colonel Wingate when I 271