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a great gain to us if divisions were to break out just now 

 among the rebels themselves. The Danagla who are still in 

 Kudurma wrote to the commander in Wandi (I have the letter) 

 that if he did not join them by the 3d of August, they, the 

 Danagla, would make an expedition against Wandi. To this 

 the answer was given that they might come. Nothing has 

 occurred in Makraka, according to the last news I have received 

 from there, that is, up to August 9. 



August 20, 1S84. 



I can now give additional particulars concerning the san- 

 guinary events in the Bahr-el-Ghazal. I learn from a letter 

 which was sent from there to Rumbek that the so-called farukh 

 (gun-boys), Dragomans, &c, have risen against the Arab occu- 

 pants of the zeribas of Dirar (Abu Guriin), Auet, Kuchuk Ali, 

 Wau, Bizelli, and Ahmed Auad, have seized all the arms and 

 ammunition, and are now in open war with the Danagla. In 

 consequence of this event, all the farukh of the Jur Ghattas 

 district, more than three hundred in number, have deserted, 

 and joined their brethren, previously destroying the small 

 station of Tonj, situated at the ford of the Tonj river. The 

 Danagla in Jur Ghattas are surrounded, and their communica- 

 tions with the west cut off. A certain Birinji is said to have 

 originated this rising. He formerly served as Sanjak (com- 

 mander of a regiment) under Ziber Pasha and Ziber's son, and 

 was at last made head of the station Meskra-er-Rek, probably 

 in recognition of his services. Ibrahim Aga, who deserted from 

 us, is said to have met his death in the sacking of Tonj. I am 

 further informed that the Kadi and the schoolmaster, of whom 

 I told you, left Ayak ostensibly to return to Lado, but after 

 reaching Lesi they went secretly to Sabi, to reach Keremallah 

 from there, so they have deserted. Besides all this informa- 

 tion from Ayak, I received a post from Makraka to-day. 

 Nothing seems to be known there yet of the Negro rising on 

 the Bahr-el-Ghazal, but the news of Ibrahim Aga's death is 

 confirmed — he was well known in Makraka, as he had been 

 there before — and " Doggoru," a small zeriba belonging to Jur 

 Ghattas and Tonj, is named as the scene of the occurrence. I 

 find Doggoru marked on your map as one of the streams forming 



