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one white officer (Sarolea) killed and a few men, and the enemy lost nine Emirs,* 200 dead, three guns, 700 rifles, and a large stock of ammunition and provisions. Rejaf was found to possess a good landing place, and was strengthened by earthworks. Lado no longer existed.

A report from the Congo (June, 1897) stated that there were then 15,000 (! ?) Dervishes at Bor, and that they had three European prisoners, of whose identity nothing was certain. f Chaltin himself had then about 1,300 men with him, and was mostly at a spot called Loka, on high ground, four days' march south-west of Rejaf. He reported the soil to be poor, and that there was little prospect of trade. For subsequent events vide Chap. Vd .

OLD WOMAN OF DAB NUBA.

Maichand As regards the French Expedition of over 400 men under Marchand and Liotard, which started from the French expedition. Congo in 1896, with a view to penetrating into the valley of the upper Nile, it reached the Sueh River, an affluent of the Bahr el Ghazal, in the autumn of 1897, and began launching two 5-ton gunboats. See next chapter for results. - The Dervish supremacy in the Bahr el Ghazal and regions bordering on the Upper Nile had now been greatly diminished owing to their severe defeat at Rejaf, and also owing to the necessity of reinforcing their threatened centre about Omdurman.

* Abu Girga surrendered and was given a letter of recommendation by Chaltin allowing Iiim to return to his own country in tlie went. He recently forwarded this letter from Fasher to Khaitouiii, willi a re(|uest that he might be permitted to .settle in Om<lurMian.

t One was reported to be an Englishman, by name Hackiff, but their identity — if they existed — lias never been disclosed.