3o6 Seven Years in the Soudan.

of ammunition and disarming all the inhabitants of the seribe.

After which he returned to his Dem and prepared to attack Shakka, thus carrying the war into Darfour, where he naturally counted upon finding a large party that would support him.

It was at this epoch that I, having left Khartoum and gathered a nucleus of soldiers along the way, was able, by my presence at Rumbek, to paralyze KMIX BEV.

Suleiman's original design. Suleiman immediately withdrew the troops who were marching towards Delgauna and ordered them to meet and attack me. Believing it easy to overcome me, he ordered his men, after having beaten me, to recommence the march on Darfour, following the plan he had made before my appearance in Bahr-el-Ghazal.

But not even the conquest of Darfour satisfied