280 Gorcnwrs-Grni'ml of the Sudan.

the Sudan was the commencement of a railway connecting the port of Sualtin with the present main line near the Atbara mouth. In addition, reconnaissances were carried out for a branch line from Abu Hamed to Merowe and Affat in the Dongola Province.

The future advancement of the country was further enhanced by the efforts made by the Government to encourage the cultivation of cotton, both by the issue of large grants of seed as well as by an arrangement through which a fair price was guaranteed to the producer for all cotton placed on the market. y J £ It only remains to be stated that in January 1900, and again in February 1905, T.R.H. the Duke and distinguiahed Duchess of Connaught, and in November 1901 His Highness the Khedive, visited Khartoum; a year later General persons. Lord Kitchener did the same and opened the Gordon College; whilst Lord Cromer paid visits in December 1899, January 15K)1 and January 1903, proceeding as far as Gondokoro in the latter year.

H.R.H. Princess Henry of Battenberg, accompanied by the Princesses Victoria of Battenberg and Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg, visited Khartoum in February 1904.

Sir William Garstin visited the White Nile, Bahr El Ghazal, Bahr El Zeraf and Blue Nile in 1899-1904, and the Bahr El Jebel in 1901 and again in 1904, when he also explored the River Atem or "Gertrude " Nile. In 1903 he visited Uganda, Semliki River, Albert Nyanza, as well as the Bahr El Jebel. The results of these journeys have now been published, August 1904 (F.O. Blue Book, Egypt, No. 2, 1904). Explorers ' following noted travellers, in addition to numerous distinguished sportsmen, have passed through Khartoum at different times since 1898 : Wellby, Grogan, Donaldson-Smith, Henri, Gibbons, Neumann, Austin, Bright, Lionel Declc, Macmillan, and Bulpett, Sir C. Eliot, Powell Cotton, and Pierre. The latter arrived in January, 1904, from Zemio in Haut Ubangi I'id Deim Zubeir and Wau.

GOVERNOES-OENEKAL OF THE SUDAN.

Date.

Name.

Date.

Name.

Mohammedan. Gregorian. Mohauimedan. Gregorian.

Osraan Bey .MahoB;ey Khursihicl Pa.-'ha ... Ahmed Pasha Abu Udn Ahmed Pasha El Miniklt Khaled Pa.sha Abdel Latif Pasha Rustem Pasha Ismail Pa.sha Abu Jebel Selim Pasha Ali Pasha Sirri Ali Pasha Sharkas Arakil Bey Hassan Bey Salama 124(1 1241 1241 1254 12.59 1262 1266 1267 1268 1269 1270 1271 1273 1275 1825 1826 1826 18.39 1844 1846 18.50 1851 1852 18.53 1854 18.55 1857 1859 Mohammed Bey Easikh Mu.sa I'asha Hamdi .Jaafar Pasha Sadek Jaafar Pasha Mazliiir Mumtaz Pasha Ismail Pasha Ay ub Gordon Pasha Raiif Pasha Abdel (iader Pasha Ala El Diu Pasha Gordon Pasha Kitchener Pasha Wiijgate Pasha 1278 1279 1281 1282 1287 1289 1293 1296 1299 13uO 1301 1316 1317 1862 1863 1865 1866 1871 1873 1877 1879 1882 1883 1884* 1899 1899 * To 26tli JrUiuary, 1885.