Fire and Sword in the sudan : a personal narrative of fighting and serving the dervishes, 1879-1895 . pticBishop of the entire district lying between the present Sarrasand Debba. This Dangal founded a town after his ownname, Dangala (Dongola), and gradually the inhabitants ofthe district were known as Danagla. They are, for themost part, of Arab descent, but, having mixed freely withthe natives of the country, have somewhat lost caste. Ofcourse they, too, insist on their Arab descent, but the Jaalincontinually refer to their Dangal origin, and treat them withcontempt and derision. The relation
Fire and Sword in the sudan : a personal narrative of fighting and serving the dervishes, 1879-1895 . pticBishop of the entire district lying between the present Sarrasand Debba. This Dangal founded a town after his ownname, Dangala (Dongola), and gradually the inhabitants ofthe district were known as Danagla. They are, for themost part, of Arab descent, but, having mixed freely withthe natives of the country, have somewhat lost caste. Ofcourse they, too, insist on their Arab descent, but the Jaalincontinually refer to their Dangal origin, and treat them withcontempt and derision. The relations between these twotribes must be fully recognised, as they play a large part inthe subsequent events in the Sudan. The quarrel between Suleiman and Idris soon came toblows; the latter appealed to Khartum, obtained the assist-ance of Government troops under Gessi Pasha, and thenfollowed that series of campaigns in the Bahr el Ghazalwhich ended in the capture of Suleiman, who, thoughpromised his life by Gessi, fell a victim to an intrigue of theDanaglas, and was executed. Not so, however, his com-. Zubeir Pasha. INTRODUCTORY 9 panion in arms, Rabeh, who, fearing the vengeance of theDanaglas, voluntarily left Suleiman prior to his surrender,and, marching in a north-westerly direction with a portionof Suleimans army, began that series of strange and wildadventures which have placed him to-day, in the neighbour-hood of Lake Tsad, a conqueror of a large portion of CentralAfrica, and a figure of considerable importance in thedestinies of the Dark Continent. There is also one other point I should mention in con-nection with tribal dissensions which bears largely on thesubsequent events in the Sudan, and for this reason mustbe explained in some detail. In this his second visit to Darfur, Gordon had ascertainedthat the Sudanese merchants of El Obeid had been sellingarms and powder to the rebel Suleiman, with whom theynaturally sympathized for their own selfish purposes ; thiscontraband
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