blamed by English people for sending expedition, 379;

must not abandon other garrisons if Kartoum falls, 394;

does not possess hand-breadth of ground, 435.

Governor-General, Gordon anxious to resign the post of, 238;

rights of Gordon as, 297.

Graham, and his despatch, 216;

willing to send men to Berber, 227.

Grain, sale of, 167;

amount of, in Kartoum, 19th October, 206.

Granville, Earl of, and Sir E. Baring, 228.

Great Britain, Gordon rejoices at the thought of never seeing, again, 228.

Greek Consul sent to interview a Greek, 18;

return of, 20;

departure of, in abeyance, 47;

and defeat of Hicks, 348.

Greeks, for Berber, 116;

list of, on board the Abbas, 273;

bodyguard of, on Abbas, 280.

Greek creditors and Government, 117.

Grievances, three, of Gordon, 306.

Gros Rageb with English troops, 205.

Guns, number lost, on steamers, 175;

concentration of, on Arab lines, 183.

Gugliz Bey, 154, 155.

H.

Hadith, the, 415, 416, 417.

Hagili, village of, levelled, 221.

Hale’s rockets, the only decent ones, 302.

Halfeyeh, foraging party between, and Shoboloha, 69;

two hundred men sent from, 72;

deputation to prevent Gordon going to, 96;

question at, 99;

meditated attack on, 140;

telegraph cut with, 165;

telegraph to, repaired, 166;

connected fort of, by telegraph, 179;

prepared to evacuate, 180;

cost to evacuate, 184;

Arabs have not occupied, 201;

cavalry out from, 204;

if Arabs come to, escape hopeless, 245;

Arabs collected at, 354;

to clear Arabs from, 365;

only fifty of expeditionary force required at, 394.

Halim as Governor-General, 362.

Hamad, Dodao, sons of, 535.

Hamed Idreer, 448.

Hammond, Lord, a Tartar, 43.

Hansall, the Austrian Consul, disposed to join Arabs, 28;

and captives at Obeyed, 37, 197, 222;

has daily Journal, 284;

and his Journal, 389;

not answered by Slatin Bey, 519.

Harrison, Colonel, 293.

Hassan Agad, 155.

Hassan Bey and Cuzzi, 8.

Hassan el Araki, Sheikh, 417.

Hassaniyeh Arabs, revolt of, 463.

Hawks at the Palace, 36.

Heart, a man lived eleven days with bullet in, 17.

Hebrews cited, 50.

Hedjaz, revolt in, 299.

Herbin left Kartoum for Dongola, 3;

on board the Abbas, 273;

left of his own freewill, 274;

sent to reinforce, 252;

has daily Journal, 284;

as a martyr, 285;

agreeable and gentlemanly Frenchman, 310;

Journal of, cause of Mahdi’s advance, 389.

Herodotus, extract from, 89.

Hewitt, Admiral, treaty of, 215, 218;

King John gave a spear and shield, 219;

all twaddle, 219;

Treaty, King John and Turks to settle about, 242;

and the desertion of Kassala, 243, 290;

the falling through of, 363;

arrival of, in Abyssinia, 518.

Hicks, strength of Mahdi when he defeated, 46;

defeat, date of, 172;

defeat of, gave prestige to Mahdi, 234;

and Kartoum, 235;

anniversary of defeat of, 240;

army of, died of thirst, 241;

probable date of defeat, 250-252;

when defeat of, was known at Cairo, 311;

defeat of, not material, 344;

army of, perished from thirst, 344;

Arabs made a pyramid of skulls from army of, 244;

account of arrival of news of defeat of, 348;

and state of his army, 427;

and Slatin Bey, 453;

arrival of, at Kartoum, 486;

appointment of, to command of expedition to Kordofan, 496;

departure of from Kartoum, 502;

last despatch from, 504.

Higginbotham, C. E., 111.

History, no parallel in, as to Gordon’s treatment, 305.

Hobson’s choice, the Turk solution, 242.

Honour, better to fall with, than gain with dishonour, 6;

binding as to withdrawal of garrisons, 122.

House of Lords, 217, 233.

Hospital, number of men in, 335.

Humbugs and diplomatists, 224.

Human glory nine-tenths twaddle, 390.

Hunger, no death from, 348.

Hussein, 157; sent to reinforce, 252.

Hussein Bey, 106.

Hussein Pasha Khalifa, 76, 170;

the giving up of Berber, 263;

father of, led Egyptians into Soudan in 1823, 265;

good friends with Mahdi, 283;

great friends with Mahdi, 303, 426.

Hussein Sadik and Gordon, 520.

Husseinyeh reconnoitring up White Nile, 202, 203;

went down river, 223, 250;

ordered up to drive Arabs back, 301;

aground, 315;

under fire, 318, 319, 320, 324, 327, 328;

death of captain of, 330;

stores taken off, 321;

struck by shell, 332;

the grounding of, a benefit, 332;

visit of Gordon to, 335;

sinking of, 356, 357.

I.

Ibrahim Hardar, 253.

Ibrahim Ruckdi, 154, 156;

“very ill”, 167;

deputation asking to take back, 167, 168;

will return to Cairo, 168.

Ibrahim Tongi Bey, 117.

Ibycus, the cranes of, 96.

Intelligence Department, 134;

Gordon’s complaint against, 154, 163.

Imam, Mahdi the present, 399.

Immaum, 448.

India, garrison, with Chinese and blacks, 189;

Mussulmans of, against Sepoys, 189;

not an advantage to our men, 189;

and Lord Cardwell, 189.

Insurgent forces, distribution of, 466.

Islam, definition of, 30.

Ismail Pasha, 362.

Ismail Pasha Ayoub, Momtoz Pasha and, 377;

cause of recall of, 377;

a great scamp, 377;

best administrator the Soudan has had, 378;

Minister of Interior in Dufferin’s time, 378;

came to grief as Minister of Finance, 378.

Ismailia struck, 105, 106;

at Halfeyeh, 157;

sent for from Halfeyeh, 170;

below Kerowé, 197;

went down river, 223;

ordered up to drive Arabs back, 301, 302;

struck by shell, 315, 316, 318, 319, 327;

gun of, on bank of Nile, 330;

sent to reconnoitre, 356, 357;

sent down, 358;

struck by shells, 385, 387.

Issat Osman Bey, 450.

J.

Janissaries, children of Christian parents, 335.

Jantimgan Mahomed Ali, grandfather of Khedive, 551.

January, impossible to keep troops after, 48;

must see other troops by, 49.

Jeremiah, comparison drawn by Gordon, 10;

and the arrests, 195.

Jervois, Sir W., 66.

Jesus Christ, miserable from birth to death, 51.

Journal, little hopes of saving, if town falls, 394.

Journals, the two first sent by steamers, 111.

Jura Hadra, defeat of troops near, 473.

“Just too late”, 191.

K.

Kaaba, 422.

Kababish tribe, revolt of, 466.

Kalakla, Mahdi opposite, 208; 440.

Kalifa Abdulla Mahommed, letter from, 553.

Kambok, water is found at, 261.

Karam Illah, 534.

Karasah, despatch of troops to, 476;

defeat of Egyptians at, 476.

Kartoum, thankful telegram of people of, to Khedive respecting Gordon, 4;

census taken of, 8;

ammunition in, 44;

and troops at Fashoda, 47;

establishment of Government at, 134;

Debbeh, eight miles from, 156;

Mahdi take, by plunging into river, 161;

inhabitants of, killed by Sheikh el Obeyed, 166;

Mahdi intends bombarding, 178;

Gordon’s instinct as to taking of, 191;

useless to retake, 191;

once taken, matters little what is said, 191;

if falls, go quietly back, 192;

happy-go-lucky government of, 198;

two hundred and nineteenth day in, 203;

protest against returning Egyptian soldiers to, 205;

statement of troops, arms, ammunition, and grain, &c., 206;

compared to siege of Troy, 224;

and Hicks’s army, 234;

Arabs ordered to congregate at, by Mahdi, 246;

road from, to Shendy, reported clear, 247;

distance from Debbéh, 255;

detachment should be sent from Metemma to, 257;

expedition ought to have reached, on November 10th, 260;

Gordon thought relief of, most uncertain, 274;

desperate when Stewart left, 286;

Gordon rather stop at, than leave, 287;

Mahdi against attack on the lines of, 292;

Gordon on evacuation of, 297;

and fall of Sennaar and Kassala, 299;

Lord Wolseley and relief of, 304;

nine months of blockade of, 304;

Gordon not to leave for Equator until he had permission, 304;

how the people of, would reason as to Gordon leaving, 307;

emphatic statement by Gordon not to leave, 307;

expeditionary force and government of, 326;

and Sheikh el Obeyed’s men, 343;

hemmed in by Arabs, 343;

state of, a year ago, 344;

Arab gun to bar entrance to, 345;

Baring bumping up to, 360;

fired on, 371;

Gordon called Pasha of, 389;

must fall in ten days, 394;

what enabled Gordon to win, 425;

defences of, 429;

food and, 429;

proclamation of state of siege at, 466;

construction of a canal south of, 471;

arrival of Stewart at, 471;

withdrawal of army to, 492;

departure of army from, 497;

letter from Mitzakis to Greek Consul in, 517;

number of soldiers coming to relieve, 518;

Gordon on abandonment of, 552;

petition from Ulema and officials of, to Khedive, 556.

Kartoumiah, 451.

Kassala must be relieved, 48;

tiradeagainst cession of, 215;

Egypt could not cede, 222;

desertion of, and Hewitt Treaty, 243;

information should have been sent to, viâ Massowah, 271;

no news from, 338;

still holding out, 392.

Katarif and Kassala, means of opening route to, 231.

Kazghil, battle of, 506.

“Keshef el Ghummah”, 416.a

Khalifas and Arabs want to fight direct, 306.

Khalif Abdallah Ben, 534.

Khedival authority, none to have charge of steamers, 209.

Khedive, bakshesh for, 444;

letter from, to Gordon, 550;

petition from officials of Kartoum, 556.

King of Belgians, 237.

King John of Abyssinia, letter from, to Gordon, 214;

despotism of, 216;

forces men to change their religion, 216;

wants the taxes of ceded country, 219;

allowed to import arms at Massowah, 232;

and Towfik, 293;

and his men, 326, 338;

reported advance of, 347;

letter from, 511;

messenger from, 517.

Kinglake, 188.

Kitchener, notes from, 70;

letter from, 73;

notes to Stewart from, 92, 94;

note of, insufficient, 172;

to Chermside, 215;

the last information was from, 270;

old newspapers from, 289;

and Gordon, 312;

Government authorises, to pay Mahdi, 360;

description of, by Baker, 360;

as Governor-General, 362, 363, 373;

letter to Gordon from, 546;

and Wolseley, 546, 549.

Kokoo, Arabs at, 249.

Koran, defence of, 19;

interesting chapters in, 37;

sent by Angel Gabriel, 410.

Kordofan, questions as to prisoners in, 36;

Europeans deserve their fate, 51;

could not produce forty thousand men, 160, 235;

two insurrections in, 391;

return of Mahdi to, cut off, 391;

affairs in, 462;

advance of Mahdi into, 467;

defeat of relief column sent to, 468;

plan of campaign of, 496.

Korosko, party moving through desert of, 207;

desert, grant of monopoly of commerce in, 265.

Kourbatch, Ismail Ayoub and inutility of, 378.

Kowa, concentration of troops at, 459;

inactivity of troops at, 460.

L.

Latest time for arrival of troops, 226.

Leonidas, the Greek Consul, 77.

Letter from Gordon to Mahdi, 9;

to the Sheikh El Obeyed, 9;

from Abdel Kader, 11;

from Calamatino, 11;

sent out to Arabs, 13, 14;

from Waled a Goun, 20;

to Mahdi from Ulemas, 22;

from Faki Mustapha, 38;

from Arab camp, 38;

curious, found, 63;

to Abdel Kader, 66;

two letters, 71;

from Gordon, 72;

Gordon to Waled a Goun, 95;

letter from Waled a Goun by a woman, 185;

two from Arabs, 190;

from Faki Mustapha, 193;

from Slatin, 196, 198, 200;

from Greek Consul, 213;

from Slatin, 214;

from Arabs, 219;

from the Mahdi, &c., 220;

has come in, 270;

from Mahdi, 270;

Gordon has, from Stanley and Baker, 274;

accompanying sixth Journal, 278;

given by Gordon to Stewart on leaving Kartoum, 280;

Gordon declares not to obey, 307;

received with Bordeen, 358;

from Abd el Kader Ibrahim to Gordon, 399;

Gordon to Abd el Kader Ibrahim, 403;

from Abderrahhman en Najoomi and Abdallah en Noor to Gordon, 404;

from Gordon to Abderrahhman en Najoomi, 407;

from Calamatino to Gordon, 409;

from Cuzzi to Gordon, 409;

from Gordon to Cuzzi, 410;

from Ulema to Abd el Kader Ibrahim, 410;

from Faki Mustapha to Cassim el Mousse, 420;

from Mudir of Kartoum to Governor-General, 426;

from Gordon to Abd el Kader Ibrahim, 428;

from Abd el Kader Ibrahim to Gordon, 430;

from Abderrahhman Abdallah en Noor to Gordon, 432;

from Gordon to Abderrahhman, 438;

from Abderrahhman to Gordon, 440;

from Stewart to Gordon, 442;

from Herbin to Gordon, 445;

from Abou Gugliz to Gordon, 447;

from El Sayet Eltahen, and Hamed Idreer to Commandant of Omdurman Fort, 448;

from Faki Mustapha to Commandant of Omdurman Fort, 450;

from Slatin Bey to Gordon, 452, 453;

from Slatin Bey to Hansall, 455;

from Emir Ali Mahommed Abou Saad Esshentrawi al Abadi to Zubair, 508; from Saleh Bey to Gordon, 511, 512, 514;

from Greek Consul at Adowa to Gordon, 516;

from Greek Consul Mitzakis to Greek Consul at Kartoum, 517;

from Slatin Bey to Gordon, 519;

from Mudir of Sennaar to Gordon, 520;

from Mahdi to Gordon, 522;

from Mohammed Sheikh Mohammed Kerkasawi to Achmet, 531;

from Fakir Karam Illah to Khalif Abdallah Ben, 534;

from Kitchener to Gordon, 546;

from Roth to Gordon, 547;

from Sir J. Pauncefote to Roth, 548;

from Khedive of Egypt to Gordon, 550;

from Kalifa Abdulla Mahommed to Gordon, 553.

Lies of officers, 255, 339.

Lines, greatest insecurity felt respecting the, 266;

the weakest part of, 303.

Lincoln and abolition of slavery, 389.

Livingstone’s explorations, 171.

Lloyd-Clifford row with Nubar, 283.

Loot on left bank of Nile, 116.

Lord Mayor’s Show Day, Kartoum ought to have been relieved on, 260.

Lupton, surrender of, 21;

at Shaka, 224;

and surrender to Mahdi, 536.

M.

Maatak, defeat of rebels near, 479.

Machufats, 168.