The British Campaign in the Soudan. 143 collected there. Having devastated all the surrounding regions, his base of supplies was then the powerful kingdom of Darfour; but Zobehr having incurred the enmity of its monarch, the latter forbade the exportation of the grain without which the slavers could not subsist. From his numerous zeribas Zobehr assembled an army of twelve or fifteen thousand men, and in a great battle at Menowatshee, in 1874, he defeated and killed Sultan Ibrahim and his two sons, thus extinguishing a dynasty which had ruled over Darfour for four hundred years. If let alone, he would have seized the vacant throne, but the Khedive Ismail was too far-sighted to permit a chief who once before had defied his power and attacked) his troops, to become an independent king. So he sent a regular army, too strong to be resisted, to complete the subjugation of Darfour so nearly accomplished by Zobehr. The latter, making a virtue of necessity, turned over his conquest to the Khedive, expecting in return to be made Governor-General of Western Soudan. His hopes were encouraged, and he was invited to Cairo. But before going there he assembled his lieutenants at Shaka, and made them take a solemn oath upon the Koran to obey whatever orders he might send them from Cairo. Arrived there, he was made a pasha and assigned a pension of £100 a month. He had brought with him £100,000 in gold, which he vainly expended in urging his claims. He was treated with great honor, but kept in a sort of gilded captivity. Disappointed and irritated, he sent secret orders to his son Suleiman to summon all his followers to rebel against Gordon, and in a short time Suleiman raised ten or twelve thousand men, far better fighters than Gordon’s troops, and secretly supplied by