26o SERVICE AND SPORT IN THE SUDAN 



Sweny, after the destruction of the province's 

 offices in 1905, took the records of the province 

 in hand, and by dint of endless hours of work 

 straightened the tangled mass of unanswered, un- 

 registered correspondence and chaotic accounts, and 

 left behind a complete record of what had gone on 

 since the occupation in 1902, we were at sea. To 

 complaints we could oppose neither receipt nor other 

 record. This was all changed. I must add here 

 that the chaos resulted from interregna in the 

 administration of energetic and capable men who 

 had all ''squared things" in their time. 



