CHAPTER II.

RESIDENCE IN DARFUR, AND EARLY HISTORY OF THE PROVINCE.

Arrival at Om Shanga--Matrimonial Difficulties--A Sudanese Falstaff--Description of El Fasher--The Furs and the Tago--A Tale of Love and Perfidy--Founding of the Tungur Dynasty--Conquest of Darfur by Zubeir Pasha--The Rizighat Tribe--Quarrel between Zubeir Pasha and the Governor-General--Both recalled to Cairo--Gordon Governor-General of the Sudan--I take up my Duties at Dara--Zogal Bey the Sub-Governor--I undertake a Campaign against Sultan Harun--Niurnia, Harun's Stronghold in Jebel Marra--I defeat the Sultan at Rahad en Nabak--Death of Harun--My Meeting with Dr. Felkin and the Rev. Wilson--My Boy Kapsun--Gordon's Letter from Abyssinia 30