356 Seven Years in the Soudan.

reward liis accomplice, the slave Gambasi, made him sultan in place of Ganga. The families of the murdered sultans Averc taken to Rumbek and Avak. But the persecution of the race did not end here. The young brother of the murdered men was mutilated, and from that time the manufacture of eunuchs commenced.

" The present Sultan of Ganga was he who made the first operations, but he was inexpert, and his victims died ; on which Yussuf Bey, now Yussuf Pasha, sent certain brothers of the name of Bekir to perform them in his stead. They succeeded in mutilating about twenty youths, who were sent to Yussuf Bo}" and his relations.

"Arriving one day at Jur Gattas, I was informed that two eunuchs were there. I immediately wrote to Emin Bey, and sent some soldiers to arrest the brothers Bekir and their victims.

" When the steamers Avith ammunition reached Meshra-el-Rek the first time, a certain Taha Aga, father-in-law of Yussuf Bey, and Governor of Latuka, was in charge of the voluminous correspondence sent to me. He remained with us till the struggle against Suleiman had ended, and then I ordered him to re-occup}' his post at Latuka. I had gone towards Sorago in pursuit of the rebels, and while Taha was marchino- towards llolil, he and his men captured forty- five negroes, and sacked the huts of the natives. I arrived too late to prevent this, but hearing that some eunuchs had also been sent to him, I sent soldiers to effect his capture. These infamous brigands are now all in my hands, and will shortly pay the penalty of their crime. Thirteen of these unhappy creatures, boys of eight to fourteen jears of age, are in my house, and I will soon send them to Khartoum, to show what sort of a pasha governs Sennaar.''

One of these boys is now at ]\ronz;i witli [Major Casati. He is called Farag, and faithfully serves his new master, who is very fond of him.