[277] This document came down with the fourth Journal. It was compiled in the Intelligence Branch, Quartermaster-General’s Department of the War Office.
[278] Powerful nomad tribes inhabiting the country west of the White Nile, and south east of Kordofan and Darfur.
[279] A body corresponding to the Divines in Christendom, who are appealed to by the Sultan respecting the right application of precepts of the Moslem faith, and their decision is known as a fetua.
[280] This opinion hardly agrees with that of a military correspondent of the Times, who, writing from Kartoum, on the 24th July, 1883, states that to preserve tranquillity at ordinary times, 9,000 troops, exclusive of the garrison of Kartoum, would be necessary, even supposing the provinces of Kordofan and Darfur to be abandoned, as has been recommended by several high authorities. He suggests that the 9,000 troops should be distributed as follows—viz., 4,000 between Kartoum and Jebel Ain, on both sides of the White Nile, 1,000 at Fashoda to keep the Denka tribes and Shilluks in order, and 4,000 on the Blue Nile, between Kartoum and Karkoj.
[281] South of Kordofan. This district is principally inhabited by negro tribes, with a king of their own, nominally subject to Kordofan.
[282] About 150 miles north-west of Kaka on the White Nile.
[283] A tribe above Korti, on the left bank of the Nile.
[284] An Italian of great force of character. He joined Colonel Gordon’s Staff in the summer of 1874, and subsequently became Governor of the Bahr-el-Ghazāl province.
[285] A district on the Abyssinian frontier near the sources of the Atbara.
[286] Sometimes called Suk-abu-Sin.