Boulak Basha, 268.
Bourré mentioned, 24;
foraging party at, 73;
accounts from, 95;
sends out men, 204;
major wounded at, dead, 218;
telegraph cut at, 222;
no sentries at, or North Fort, 222;
Arabs in front of their old fort at, 268;
Arabs lost heavily at, 306;
Arab loss at, 312;
Arabs firing on lines at, 321;
firing on, 325, 332, 339, 349, 362;
small battle at, 382;
mines at, 391;
heavy loss of Arabs at, 394.
British forces, Gordon view as to, 83;
division of, 84;
only one hundred and fifty miles from steamers, 156.
Brussels, Gordon and, 354.
Buglers, 383.
Buller, let him have full swing, 90;
fighting force probably under, 128.
C.
Cairo, telegram to, 71;
saved us, 76;
general discharge of, débris, 204;
time as to advance of troops from, 260;
Turkish Bashi Bazouks for cowardice, 267;
braggarts, 267;
and the gentlemen who rule, 269;
Stewart told to go on to, 287;
Mahdi and information from, 296;
and money orders, 343;
reinforcements demanded from, 407;
amount of money to come from, for war, 493.
Cadi released, 272.
Calamatino, George, 402;
a traitor, 404;
called El Jaber, 406;
urges Gordon to see him, 409;
and Europeans, 409.
Cambyses, 175.
Camel transport depends on temper of Arabs, 262.
Campaign, unprofitable, 239.
Caravans, supposed to bring money from Berber, 347;
three, from north to Mahomet Achmet’s camp, 383.
Cardwell, Lord, 189.
Cassim el Mousse, 38;
asked to kill Gordon, 208;
impression of seal sent to, 361, 420;
brother of, 442.
Cavalry sent towards Giraffe, 203;
out from North Fort towards Halfeyeh, 204.
Chabeen in dry dock, 157.
Cherif, resignation of, prohibited Egypt from helping herself, 341.
Chermside, 92.
China and France come to terms, 283.
Chinese, Gordon’s opinion of the, 25;
for English expeditions, 189;
contempt of, for Sepoy, 189.
Chivalry, borrow, if you have it not, 311.
Christian, Gordon regrets being a, note, 15;
true of the religion of Islam, 30.
Cipher-books taken by Stewart, 273;
why Gordon sent down the, 275.
Circassian soldiers not wanted, 209.
Circumcision, 195.
Club bores and Gordon, 361.
Cock turkey, 385.
Coetlogon, Colonel, opinion of, as to rebels, 86.
Colours flying, to go down with, 333.
Column, strong, no use in Soudan, 89.
Colvin, Sir Auckland, held responsible for Soudan disasters, 21;
the Co. are Malet and, 42;
class, and humbugs, 224.
Congo, Gordon’s intention of retiring to, 112.
Conscience, acted according to, 271;
and ability, acted according to, 271.
Court of Inquiry and Stewart, Power, and Herbin, 274.
Cowardice, the troops to back for, 267.
Cows, two, come into Omdurman Fort, 265;
seven, came in, 272;
Arabs drive, in, supposed to explode mines, 302;
number captured at Omdurman, 305, 309.
Cranes, 96.
Crimea, considered mean to bob in, 376.
Cunnynghame, 60.
Cuzzi, came into lines, 8;
questioned as to Mahdi, 8;
escort sent to try to capture, 15;
left for Berber, 21;
suspected as emissary of Mahdi, 22;
presents received by, from Mahdi, 23;
Gordon regrets his gift to, 24;
his Arabic name, Mahomet Yusuf, 24;
Baring and, 57;
revenge of, 57; 140;
sure that, is a traitor, 210;
Mahdi speaks of, 524.
D.
Dar Djumna, Cataract, Stewart captured at, 193;
treachery of a sheikh at, 247;
from Berber to, and back on camel in one day, 247;
expeditionary force at, 247;
position of, 247.
Darfur, 235;
events in, 465;
operations in, 495.
Deaths, Gordon’s returns of, and wounded, 351.
Debbeh, eight days from Kartoum, 156;
expeditionary force reported at, 255;
distance from to Kartoum, 255;
unlikely that rumours did not reach, 260.
Débris, Cairo, 205.
Decisions to be taken in event of rapid retreat, 298.
Defeat, Gordon fears, 20.
Delusions, feeding on, for months, 312.
Dem, explanation of defeat on the, 12.
Dervishes, two came in with Mahdi’s letter, 9;
letters sent back by them, 9;
the procession of the five, 96;
bring letter from Mahdi, 270;
fanaticism of, 338;
allies, 402.
Desert, the way to cross the, en masse, 87;
bitter cold in the, 261.
Deserters and Arabs, 335.
Despatches deciphered by Mahdi, 520.
Destiny, no use fighting against, 344.
Dhoora, i.e. forage, 249;
trying to be petitioned for, 269.
Dictator needed for Soudan, 240.
Dilke, Sir Charles, held responsible for Soudan disasters, 21; 59.
Dinner parties, Gordon and, 228.
Diplomatists, no love for, 42;
Gordon hates our, 223.
Diplomatic and military service, 234.
Djaalen, country, Stewart in, 443;
gone over to the Arabs, 445.
Doctors, Gordon against, 179, 180.
Document, only original, kept by Gordon, 309.
Don Luigi, his fidelity, 24.
Dongola, tales of troops at, 38;
no evidence of troops at, 39;
reported arrival of troops at, 46;
messengers from, 69;
letter from Mudir, 70;
telegram from Mudir of, 75;
spies started for, 76;
scheme for having open route to, 85;
and medical officers, 98;
Gordon on Wolseley’s advance from, 113;
Mudir of, as Governor-General, 124;
people of, would be hostile if evacuated, 243;
the desert of, coldest of all deserts, 261;
Nutzer Pasha and Egyptians should not be sent lower than, 262;
Mudir of, his account of Stewart’s landing, note, 281;
certainty as to Abbas reaching, 286;
little effect of our preparation at, 305;
blockade of, 428;
Stewart has no certain news of, 444;
note to Mudir of, from Gordon, 539.
Dud Benga and Slatin Bey, 453.
Duem, defeat of rebels near, 467.
E.
Earle to extricate garrisons, 93, 98.
Earthquake, 21;
Edrees, 167.
Egypt, Palestine, and meditated invasion of, by Mahdi, 44;
our action in, and the garrisons, 93;
and Gladstone in 1878, 104;
General Simmons’s views on, 130;
responsible for pensions, 137;
Kassala not ceded by, 222;
and the bondholders, 235;
cannot govern Soudan, 238;
fiction that Egyptian Government governs, 306;
Government refused to help, as to Soudan, 341;
Government refused to let, help herself, 341;
Government refused to allow any other Power to help, 341;
debt on, 373;
reinforcements from, 472.
Egyptian soldier, contempt for, 60;
soldier, apology for abusing, 63;
mountain guns, usefulness of, 109;
soldiers, Gordon’s consideration for, 112;
soldiers, climate that suits, 158;
administrations, inefficiency of, 160;
soldiers not wanted in Kartoum, 205;
their pay, 205;
no troops more contemptible than, 209;
territory, no part to be ceded except by permission of Porte, 221;
from steamers should not be sent further than Dongola, 262;
Government and bugle calls, 383;
army, tactics of, 498;
annihilation of, troops, 501.
Egerton, his telegram from Lord Granville, 39;
pomp of telegram of, 41;
tone of telegram from, grates, 42;
contract arrangement of, 45;
and Government telegram, 58;
telegram from, 69;
affection for, 73;
cipher telegram of, 74;
is a statistician, 77; 130;
telegrams of, undecipherable, 172;
last telegram from, 288.
El Duem, Stewart halted at, 443.
El-foun, ammunition captured by Arabs at, 9;
situation desparate after defeat at, 287.
El Heza, Stewart at, 442.
El Huda, 428.
Elias Pasha and Slatin, with Mahdi, 170.
El Jaber, another name of Calamatino, 406; 433.
“El Jaoakeet w’el Jowahir”, 417.
El Obeyed, man from, 40;
the town and the Sheikh, confusion of, 59;
at Kassala, 78;
assault of, 467;
state of the garrison of, 471;
siege of, 471;
surrender of, 482.
El Sayet Eltahen, 448.
Emin Bey, reported capture of, 221.
Emirs with Mahdi, 401.
Emissary, Gordon will not obey, 307.
England, Gordon will never return to,112;
made by adventurers, 192;
and terms for soldiers, 197.
English, prisoners at Assouan, 193;
troops passed Abou Hamed, 205;
two days distant from Berber, 206;
General wants camels in great haste, 262;
wants to go in one body, 262;
troops and Merowé, 438.
Equator and Bahr Gazelle garrisons, 85;
garrison of, 117;
question as to garrison of, 14, 22, 235.
Esneh, importance of, on the Nile, 44.
European directing fire of Mahdi’s gun, 302;
prisoners with Mahdi and Slatin, 202;
officers, names of those that perished with Hicks, 507.
Europeans have nothing to do with apostate in Arab camp, 6;
of Kordofan deserve their fate, 51;
information about, 403.
Evacuate, to, prestige vanishes, 86.
Evacuation of Soudan, solution of, 37;
and bolting out, distinction between, 79;
Gordon indifferent to, 113;
policy, carrying out of the, 204.
Ex-Khedive, view of governing Soudan, 52, 53, note.
Expedition will encounter no enemy,88;
to save national honour, 93;
relief No. 1, 93;
relief No. 2, 93;
waste of money and life in, 149, 151;
unremunerative, 138; Gordon
not cause of, 139;
to Tokar, 163;
ought to have captured Berber, 260;
knew nothing of, when Abbas left, 225;
Arabs unconcerned as to advance of the, 303;
expected by this time, 311;
rumour of advance of, 312.
Expeditionary force comes for honour of England, 58;
but too late, 191;
useless to retake Kartoum, 191;
Gordon on movements of, 326;
impossible to avoid Arabs, 326;
question as to arrival of, 346;
reported near Berber, 347;
Arabs repulsed three times by, 347;
left Merowé for Berber, 349;
and Gordon’s steamer, 351;
doubtful arrival of, before fall of Kartoum, 352;
and the reported capture of Berber, 354, 365;
reported at Metemma, 355;
no news of, in Waled a Goun’s camp, 356;
at Ambukol, 358;
advancing in three parties, 359;
must soon arrive to save Kartoum, 368;
question as to arrival of, 368;
as allies of Towfik, 373;
to relieve British subjects, 378;
to give boats and steamers, &c., to Zubair, 380;
reported capture of Berber by, 386;
reported as coming by land, 387;
rumoured near, 391;
reported advance towards Berber, 392;
reported at El Damer, 393;
only 100 men of required by Gordon, 394;
must not be withdrawn if Kartoum falls, 394;
only fifty of, sufficient, 394
Gordon’s tactics if in command of, 395;
if, does not arrive in ten days, Kartoum may fall, 395.
Expeditions to Sennaar and Equator, trouble of, 86.
Ezekiel cited as to Soudan, 11.
F.
Faith, not a small thing to deny our, 5;
if Christian, is a myth, throw it off, 6;
mean to throw it off to save one’s life, 6.
Faithless man, should not denounce, 100.
Fakeers and money at Berber, 424.
Faki Mustapha, report that he wishes to join Government, 4;
General Gordon bids him wait events, 4;
captured soldier come in from, 15;
letter from, 38;
commotion through letter of, 42;
desires a letter, 68;
camp of, six flags at, 195, 196;
few Arabs at, 201;
looting dem of, 241;
camp of, alongside of Mahdi’s, 295; 420.
Fakirs and booty, 535.
False Prophet, appearance of the, 456.
Fanatics and robbers, both King John and Mahdi are, 216.
Fanaticism, decline of, 18.
Fascher, an Arab steamer, 205, 206;
captured by Arabs, note 35, 250, 443.
Fashoda, troops reported at, 46;
reinforcements for, 465.
Fate, belief in, 271.
Fatmah, 447.
Fear, contagion of, 20.
Fellaheen, uncleanliness of, 17;
contemptible as soldiers, 60;
for Berber, 115;
acted in interests of, 146, 233;
Gordon makes a present of the, 204;
to be backed for cowardice, 267.
Ferratch Pasha, a Ferik, 179;
made a Miralli, 192;
and releasing of prisoners, 200;
and news to the Arabs, 208;
reported safe, 325;
letter from, 331;
dares not go out, 345, 348, 349;
reports all right, 355, 356, 357;
always the gentleman, 342, 350;
vigour of, 394.
Ferratch Pasha el Zeeb, letter to, 451.
Ferratch Ullah Bey, telegram from
Gordon to, 536.
Fiction, that Egyptian Government
governs Egypt, 306;
as to Abyssinian treaty, 306.
Finance question and the Rothschilds, 224.
Gordon’s resolve in absence of, 368, 372.
Fleet, progress decided by slowest vessel, 286.
Floyer, notes from, 70;
telegram of, 92;
and telegraph department, 170, 171, 249.
Food question, 391.
Forage, i.e. Dhoora, 249.
Foraging parties sent out, 72.
Force, only enemy, would meet from Debbeh to Merowé, 257.
Forces, division of, according to Gordon’s plans, 126;
concentration of, completed, 196.
Foreign Office and cipher books, 273;
and Gordon, 376.
Forts, numbers required for, from Ambukol to Metemma, 256.
Fowler’s railway to Shendy, and Nile route, 262.
France and Egypt, 138, 139, 364.
Free will, Gordon likes, 198.
French Consul-General, cipher of with Mahdi, 275.
French and Egypt, 310.
Frenchman not with the Mahdi, 263.
Friday, unreasonable to work on, 350.
Funds in Treasury, 117.
Future, meditations as to the, 47.
G.
Gabra wells, 87.
Gakdul to Abou Klea, time to get from, 261.
Garrisons, obstacle to abandonment of Soudan, 55;
distance to abandon, 56;
time for bringing down, 85;
expedition to relieve the, 93;
Earle sent to relieve, 93;
relief of from outside, 102;
mean to leave the, 122;
extrication of, 123;
abandonment of, 125;
and government, 151;
Gordon refuses to abandon, 113;
Gordon’s views as to relief of, 114;