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Captain Cotton also spoke of the Wadai situation. Wadai 

 is now the sole remaining kingdom in the Sudan that is hostile 



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to the rule of the white man. About the year 1825 it was 

 conquered by the Sheik El Kanemi, the powerful Captain of 

 Ibrahim, the Sultan of Bornu, and the original founder of 

 Kukawa. In the eighties, as the power of Bornu declined, 

 Wadai, strengthened by the preachings of the Mahdi, Senoussi, 

 became powerful again and successfully resisted the attacks 

 of Rabehinl89I. 



