THE NEGRO REVOLT. 469 a great gain to us if divisions were to break out just now among the rebels themselves. The Danagla who are still in Kudurma wrote to the commander in Wandi (I have the letter) that if he did not join them by the 3d of August, they, the Danagla, would make an expedition against Wandi. ‘To this the answer was given that they might come. Nothing has occurred in Makraka, according to the last news I have received from there, that is, up to August 9.

August 20, 1884.

I can now give additional particulars concerning the sanguinary events in the Bahr-el-Ghazal. I learn from a letter which was sent from there to Rumbek that the so-called farukh — (gun-boys), Dragomans, &c., have risen against the Arab occupants of the zertbas of Dirar (Abu Gurtn), Auet, Kuchuk Ali, Wau, Bizelli, and Ahmed Auad, have seized all the arms and ammunition, and are now in open war with the Danagla. In consequence of this event, all the farukh of the Jur Ghattas district, more than three hundred in number, have deserted, and joined their brethren, previously destroying the small station of Tonj, situated at the ford of the Tonj river. The Danagla in Jur Ghattas are surrounded, and their communications with the west cut off. A certain Birinji is said to have originated this rising. He formerly served as Sanjak (commander of a regiment) under Ziber Pasha and Ziber’s son, and was at last made head of the station Meshra-er-Rek, probably in recognition of his services. Ibrahim Aga, who deserted from us, is said to have met his death in the sacking of Tonj. Iam further informed that the Kadi and the schoolmaster, of whom I told you, left Ayak ostensibly to return to Ladé, but after reaching Lési they went secretly to Sabi, to reach Keremallah from there, so they have deserted. Besides all this information from Ayak, I received a post from Makraka to-day. Nothing seems to be known there yet of the Negro rising on the Bahr-el-Ghazal, but the news of Ibrahim Aga’s death is confirmed—he was well known in Makrakd, as he had been there before—and “ Doggoru,” a small zertba belonging to Jur Ghattas and Tonj, is named as the scene of the occurrence. I find Doggoru marked on your map as one of the streams forming