oudan, where he
could personally watch and control his movements, than to allow him to
remain at Cairo, guiding hostile plots with his money and influence in
the very region whither Gordon was proceeding.

This view is supported by the following Memorandum, drawn up by
General Gordon on 25th January 1884, the day before the interview, and
entitled by him "Zebehr Pasha _v._ General Gordon":--

"Zebehr Pasha's first connection with me began in 1877, when I
was named Governor-General of Soudan. Zebehr was then at Cairo,
being in litigation with Ismail Pasha Eyoub, my predecessor in
Soudan. Zebehr had left his son Suleiman in charge of his forces
in the Bahr Gazelle. Darfour was in complete rebellion, and I
called on Suleiman to aid the Egyptian army in May 1877. He never
moved. In June 1877 I went to Darfour, and was engaged with the
rebels when Suleiman moved up his men, some 6000, to Dara. It was
in August 1877. He and his men assumed an hostile attitude to the
Government of Dara. I came down to Dara and went out to
Suleiman's camp, and asked them to come and see me at Dara.
Suleiman and his chiefs did so, and I told them I felt sure that
they meditated rebellion, but if they rebelled they would perish.
I offered them certain conditions, appointing certain chiefs to
be governors of certain districts, but refusing to let Suleiman
be Governor of Bahr Gazelle. After some days' parleying, some of
Suleiman's chiefs came over to my side, and these chiefs warned
me that, if I did not take care, Suleiman would attack me. I
therefore ordered Suleiman to go to Shaka, and ordered those
chiefs who were inclined to accept my terms in another
direction, so as to separate them. On this Suleiman accepted my
terms, and he and others were made Beys. He left for Shaka with
some 4000 men. He looted the country from Dara to Shaka, and did
not show any respect to my orders. The rebellion in Darfour being
settled, I went down to Shaka with 200 men. Suleiman was there
with 4000. Then he came to me and begged me to let him have the
sole command in Bahr Gazelle. I refused, and I put him, Suleiman,
under another chief, and sent up to Bahr Gazelle 200 regular
troops. Things remained quiet in Bahr Gazelle till I was ordered
to Cairo in April 1878, about the finances. I then saw Zebehr
Pasha, who