INVASION OF WADAI AND RETURN FROM IT.

Next I penetrated with my army to the west, where the countries of Tama, Messalit, Gimir, and Sula surrendered to me.

From these places I came to Tuareg, which separates Dar Fur from VA'adai : here I remained some days resting from the fatigues of my expedition. My intention was to invade Wadai, and bring it beneath the sway of the Khedive. At that time the Sultan was Ali, son of the Sultan Mohammed Sherif, and to him I sent a letter calling upon him to surrender. Then I invaded his country, and advanced until I reached a place two days' journey from the .Sultan's capital. Here I received a letter stating that the Sultan acknowledged the suzerainty of the Khedive, and agreed to pay a fixed yearly tribute, on condition that he was allowed to remain as King over the country. He sent one of his viziers with 50 horses and 8,000 rials in order to undertake negotiations, and pointed out that they \\ ere Mohammedans, of the Abbassid tribe, (i) but, before we had come to any settled agreement, I received a letter from Ismail Pasha containing orders from a high autho-(i) Compare the similar action of Amara Dunkas of Sennar who wrote to Selim Bey, Sultan of Turkey, in 1517, pointing out that he was an Arab and a Mohammednn, an<l shmilcl in consequence be innnune from attack.