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in the neiglibourliood. They replied in the negative, assuring me that only one Jelabba, old and infirm, lived not very far off, and that the country was free of slaye traders.

" Dem-el-Arbab is situated at two dajs' distance from Dem Suleiman. Its position is •magnificent. There were once several edifices of unbaked bricks and earth, but they were mostly destroyed by Suleiman. The commercial establishment here belonged to two Khartoum merchants, named Arbab Ziber Adlau and Agal.

" When Suleiman revolted, the Governor-General of the Soudan sent Arbab Ziber Adlau to him in the capacity of procurator of the Government (vekil). As he was an old acquaintance of Ziber Pasha, and enjoyed a good reputation among the ivory and slave merchants, it was hoped that he would be able to convince Suleiman of his mistake, and persuade him to submit and lay down his arms. But El-Arbab's intervention was of no avail. When he arrived at Suleiman's camp, he was obliged to walk for an hour between two ranks of rebels, and was received with a volley fired in the air. When Suleiman saw him, he cried, ' You are certainly come with proposals for peace. You throw away your time and words.'

" He had scarcely ended when the chiefs, drawing their swords, swore by the Koran that before they again sheathed them they would hang them upon the walls of their houses at Khartoum, for that there alone could conditions of peace be made. Having failed in his mission, Arbab returned to his settlement.

" I had nourished the hope that on the opening of hostilities, he would have come to my assistance with his thousand soldiers ; but one of his nephews (who paid the penalty of his treachery when made prisoner at Darra) joined the rebels with his uncle's troops, and fought against us to the last.