The Sandeh Chiefs.

35 village, and demanded and obtained a quantity of merissa, or beer. Excited by tbe beverage, they tried to carry off tlie daughters of a slieikb, who, foreseeing a fight, sent two messengers to inform the Grovernor of the station of what had occurred. The messengers were driven away without being listened to, and when they returned to the village found that the natives had attacked the soldiers, who, before they could use their arms, were overcome and killed. In a few hours the settlement learned what had happened, and the Arabs, obeying only their spirit of revenge, went in great numbers to the village and shot every person they met, so that about four hundred natives fell under their fire, which never ceased till night. The few natives who were left alive Avere led into slavery.

" I could mention many examples of this kind, [f the natives refused to submit to the caprices of the Arabs or to part with their daughters, they were treated as assi, that is, rebels, and were either killed or maltreated in every sort of manner. All over Africa it was the same. I do not shrink from the truth, persuaded that the Egyptian Government have no wish to conceal what crimes are committed by the Arabs against the good and harmless population. In any case, what I say will put the Government and all who take an interest in African affairs on their guard. I am ready to show proof of all that I assert. jNTeither rank nor high salary can ever purchase tny silence.

" Listen then to the account of what occurred in Monbuttu during the administration of Jussuf Bey, now Yussuf Pasha and actual Governor of Seunaar.

" When I went to Rumbek for the first time to organize the troops that were to fight against Suleiman, I observed several eunuchs standing before the doors of Mudir Yussuf Bey, and of his cousin, Hassan Ibrahim Bey. I made inquiries, and heard from Mudir Yussuf Bey himself that this