'the unrest of which we have seen signs lately among
all Mohammedan peoples in the northern half of Africa has produced a rising of rebels in Kordofan. The post of Taloudi was besieged by a force of Arab slave-traders, who received
• little or no support from the neighbouring Baggara clans. O'Connell Bey, Governor of Kordofan, left El Obeid with a camel torps of three hundred and fifty men and two hundred Soudanese infantry, and after a march of two hundred and fifty miles in a difficult country, raised the siege of Taloudi on June 14th, and, pursuing the rebels to a mountain stronghOld, inflicted on them a severe defeat, killing three hundred and fifty and taking a hundred prisoners. The whole affair seems to have been brilliantly managed, and that such an achievement could have been accomplished in so short a time and in such
a country is a high tribute to the efficiency of our Soudan force. It is only twenty-three years ago that Hicks Pasha and his army perished in the same district.
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