— 38 — Abu Anga (i). But their masters could not brook the departure of their slaves, and their hearts were hardened against me, and their spirit inclined to war. But it was not my wish to quarrel with the Arabs, and I offered to give them back their slaves. Then the slaves became violently incensed, and refused to return with their masters: so I said to the Arabs that I would send the slaves with an escort as far as Hofret el Nahas: but the blacks replied that between this place and Dar Fur was a distance of many days, and rather than go back they would kill (l) Abu Anga befriended Slatin Pasha when the latter went to Omdurman, and was in charge of him, He captured the Omdurman fort which was being held by Faragullah Pasha, and sank the steamer Ilussaniah. Latter he attacked the Nuba Jebels where his successes led to his being sent against the Abu Rof, the Geheina tribe who had refused to come to Omdurman. He was again victorious and despatched to Gedaref as Emir with a force of 15,000 rifles, 45,000 spearmen and 800 cavalry. On the plains of Debra Sin he routed the Abyssinians. He then marched on Gondar where he expected to find great treasures, but was disappointed. "In the large and lofty stone building, said to have been erected by the Portuguese, they found one poor old Coptic priest who was thrown out of the highest story into the street below. The town was fired and looted, thousands of Abyssinian women and girls being carried off from here and the villages through which they passed on their way back, all of which w ere put to the sword."

"The road between Gallabat and Abu Haraz was strewn with corpses." Abu Anga died shortly after at Gallabat as the result of an over dose of a poisonous root from Dar Fertit, which he had been in the habit of taking as a remedy for indigestion. Slatin 196; 242, 254, 255. 256.