The centre of supply was the Upper Nile, where the operation was found dangerous after the age of fifteen, and when badly performed only one in four survived. For this reason, during the last century the Coptic monks of Girgah and Zawy al Dayr, near Assiout, engaged in this scandalous traffic, and declared that it was philanthropic to operate scientifically (Prof. Panuri and many others).
Eunuchs are now made in the Sudan, Nubia, Abyssinia, Kordofan, and Dar For, especially the Messalmiyah district: one of these towns was called Tawashah (eunuchry) from the traffic there conducted by Fukaha or religious teachers. Many are supplied by the district between Majarah and the port Masawwah; there are also depots at Mbadr, near Tajurrah harbour, where Yusuf Bey, Governor in 1880, caponised some forty boys, including the brother of a hostile African chief: here also the well known Abu Bakr was scandalously active. It is calculated that not less than eight thousand of these unfortunates are annually exported to Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey. Article IV. of the Anglo-¬Egyptian Convention punishes the offence with death, and no one would object to hanging the murderer under whose mutilating razor a boy dies. Yet this, like most of our modern 'improvements' in Egypt, is a mere brutum fulmen. The crime is committed under our very eyes, but we will not see it.
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