The Sandeh Chiefs. 357 " A few days ago an order reached me from Khartoum to send thither the family of Yussuf Pasha, consisting of thirty-eight persons. No sooner was the arrival of Yussuf s messenger known than the daughters of Munza and Ganga presented to me a protest in which tliey declared that they had been abducted from their homes, their fathers assassinated, and that they refused to go to the murderer of their parents.

"'We prefer,' they said, 'our miserable huts to the sumptuous palaces of such scoandrels.'

" Gessi.