Public officials and their personality, 233.

Q.

‘Queen’s Messenger,’ pleasure in reading the, 43.

R.

Rahad, Mahdi still at, September 10, 5.

Rammer, the, 216.

Rapid “retreat”, 236;

decisions in event of, 298.

“Rapport Militaire”, 217.

Ras Aloula, on defeat of, 290.

Rashid Bey, defeat of, at Jebel Gadir, 460;

appointed Governor of Kordofan, 464.

Rations, row as to troops’, 346, 347;

robbed by officers, 367, 368, 385.

Razagat, Slatin commanded against the, 454.

Rebellion, causes of, 458;

spread of the, 462.

Reconnoitring party feared, 311.

Redemption did not take place through our merits, 245.

Red Sea, Arabs captured dhows in, 299.

Regulars, number with the Mahdi, 177.

Reinforcements for Soudan, nine people, 252.

Renan, 144, 145, 392.

Rescued lamb, Gordon not the, 93, 118.

Resign, not insubordinate to, 234.

Revelation cited, 12.

Rice issued as pay to troops, 111.

Rockets, 302.

Roman Catholic Mission, garden of, 37;

with Mahdi, 129;

house of, set fire to, 132;

King John will drive out the, 219.

Roth, letter to Gordon from, 547;

from Pauncefote to, 548.

Rothchilds causing bother about finance question, 224.

Royal Navy, Ismailia compared with, 319.

Ruckdi sent to reinforce, 252;

robbery by, discovered, 349.

Russia, kind of warfare to be used against, 90.

S.

Sakkeyer Arabs, meditate raid on, 192.

Sakkéyés, 443.

Salaries, reduction of, 245.

Salehh Lik, 423.

Saleh Pasha, a prisoner with the Mahdi, 30-31;

his son, 141;

message from, 160;

in chains, 215, 299.

Saleh Bey, of Gabalat, men from, 213, 214, 511;

attitude of, to Government, 513;

the four tribes who besieged it, 514.

Samuel, Book of, cited, 376.

Sanderson, 89.

Sandjak Saleh Bey, 455.

Santels, Arabs fired on, 244.

Saphia, Mahdi will not fight during, 268;

and Stewart, 442;

Mansowrah, men on, 444.

Sarakhna camp, 504.

Scene in Desert, 168, 169.

Schatt, an inland town mentioned, 31;

Mahdi not at, 109.

Schiller, Gordon’s admiration for, 96.

Seid Gjoma and Slatin Bey trying to enter Omdurman, 520;

Mohamed Ebn Seid Abdullah, Slatin’s new name, 454.

Sekhedy, defeat of rebels at, 485.

Senheit, the only place King John could occupy, 219.

Sennaar, useless to send to, for dhoora, 106;

means of opening road to, 126;

despatch of force to, 137;

all right, 214;

expedition towards, 231, 236, 246;

party of Arabs at, 282;

and the relief of, 284;

and Kassala, and abandonment of, 297, 299;

evacuation and Zubair, 300;

still holding out, 392;

defeat of garrison, 461;

inhabitants of, for Gordon, 521.

Sepoys useless, 189.

Sept. 10, of losses up to, 283.

Serail and Turkey cock, 49.

Service of Mahdi gratuitous, 245.

Sevastopol and Kartoum, 390.

Seyd Mahomet Osman, his confidence in Gordon, 28;

little boy of, a hero, 88;

with English, 192;

and Abyssinian question, 214;

house of, pulled down by Arabs, 345.

Shaggyeh, the defection of, 30;

both sides despise the, 68;

family quarrels of, 78;

questions put to Gordon by, 94;

at Halfeyeh, 108;

troublesome again, 130;

trouble of the, 166;

worry of the, 185;

at North Fort, 185;

pulling down Goba and Hogali, 201;

want more dhoora, 208;

Bashi Bazouks and English chastisement, 241;

losses of the, 259;

Gordon laments the, 259;

to pay for the lost Remingtons, 266;

to be backed for cowardice, 267;

arrant braggadocios, 267;

problem what to do with, 314;

the absurdity of paying for the, 342;

desertion of, to Arabs, 347, 351;

for the Government, 442.

Shakir Effendi, 420.

Shareef Mahhmood, 428.

Sheikh el Emin Mahomed, 420;

el Islam, supposed present from Mahdi to, 187, 188;

threatened, 203;

Mahdi declares he will execute, 264;

release of, 272.

Sheikh el Obeyed, killed prisoners of Kartoum, 166;

quietude of forces of, 197;

the man and the city, 201, 246;

reported dead, 274;

dead, 291, 292, 293;

people of, dispersing, 293;

men of, and second blockade of Kartoum, 343.

Sheikh Hussein el Mahdi, 420.

Sheikh Ibrahim put in chains by Abou Gugliz, 174.

Shells, the reason they do not prove fatal, 183.

Shendy, road to, still open, 110;

steamers leave for, 111, 115;

steamers bombarding, 208;

steamers left for, 213;

reported looting of, by steamers, 246;

brought into subjection by steamers, 247;

Stewart escorted past, 280;

Arabs at, 359;

Stewart reached, 443.

Shendy-Metemma, chief strategical point of Soudan, 262.

Shepheard’s Hotel, prediction as to forces being at, 38.

Shereef Mohammed, 434, 439.

Shimei dusting David, 376.

Ships no good against land batteries, 204.

Shoboloha, endeavour by Arab chief to raise people of, 16;

no Arabs at, 358.

Shoboloha Pass and Stewart, 442.

Sikhs and Belochees, 189.

Simmons, General Sir Lintorn, 130.

Sinkat, defeat of rebels at, 499.

Sirdar, the, 163.

Skeleton, living, in hospital, dead, 264.

Slatin Bey, in Kordofan, 21;

ammunition and stores surrendered by, 23;

Arabic name of, Abdel Kadi, 24;

with Mahdi, 129;

and Elias Pasha with Mahdi, 170;

not with Faki Mustapha, 198;

not a Spartan, 200;

and his coming to stay with Gordon, 202;

men like, wanted, 209;

curious part of letter of, 217;

and paper from, 227;

reported to be in chains, 243;

good friends with Mahdi, 263;

a prisoner, 272;

surrender of, 283;

on best terms with Mahdi, 283;

in chains, 295, 298;

reported release from chains, 312;

in chains, 314, 391;

offers to join Gordon, 453;

letter from, 495, 519;

three years since, had news from family, 520.

Slave battalions, formation of, 465.

Slave circular, indignation at, 40, 54.

Slave Convention Treaty and Zubair, 380.

Slave-holding and abolition of, 135.

Slave-hunting by Mahdi and Zubair, 55.

Slave-trade cannot be helped, 137;

restoration of by Government, 235.

Slave traffic and Gordon, 425.

Slavery, Gordon on abolition of, 104;

Mahdi will end, in Soudan, 386.

Slaves made soldiers, 64;

and Lord Palmerston, 389;

trade in, to be stopped, 559.

Slippers, to strike with, a Moslem insult, 133.

Soldier, the place of a, the field, 64, 65;

their pay, 248.

Soudan, ex-Khedive’s view of governing, 52;

Nile only way of access to, 52;

garrisons only obstacle to abandonment of, 55;

artillery not needed in the, 83;

future of, cannot be hurried, 84;

heavy column no use in the, 89;

best solution of the difficulties in the, 124;

a useless country, 125;

must not be given to Egypt, 135;

for Turks, 136;

cannot be governed by men in Cairo, 139;

cost of holding, 143;

Gordon does not question Government policy as to, 150;

all soldiers in, know Gordon, 158;

no quarter given on either side in engagements, 232;

cruel to our conscripts to go up to, 233;

politically unwise, 233;

Egypt unable to govern, 235;

way out of the, not seen by Gordon, 235;

prediction as to the, 236;

useless to us, 238;

getting out of, 238;

nobler to keep, 240;

Shendy-Metemma chief strategical point of, 262;

private cost of, business to Gordon, 304;

emphatic statement of Gordon not to leave, 307;

Towfik’s Firman as to abandonment, 309;

no aid has come to, since defeat of Hicks, 348;

Gordon and the evacuation of, 353;

Towfik’s Firman as to, cancelled, 359;

legal authority over, only from Towfik, 372;

“Fiction” not held good in, 372;

and quiet of, 375;

Ismail Ayoub best administrator the, has had, 378;

“Fiction” as having nought to do with, 379;

Mahdi will be end of slavery, in 386;

and slavery, 389;

despatch of reinforcements for, 470;

organization of, 557;

boundaries of, 558.

Soudanese, and their property, note, 19;

not worth any great sacrifice, 51.

Spies, none from outsiders, 92;

of Seyd Mahomet Osman, captured and executed, 247;

liking to get more, 344, 403.

Spy, important, captured, 176.

Standard and telegrams, 308.

“Standing order”, absurd in Egypt, 160.

Stanley, letters received by Gordon from, 274.

Statement of troops, arms, ammunition, and grain in Kartoum, 206.

Steamer, trial trip of small, 178.

Steamers, Mr. Bond and, on the Nile, 54;

from Berber, 72;

Stewart’s left for Berber Sept. 11, 8;

expected at Berber, 22;

frailty of, 44;

value of, 97;

compared to Thames steamers, 107;

bad state of, 107, 108;

take two Journals, 111;

leave for Shendy, 115;

left for Berber, 121;

Gordon has nine, 60;

hopes by Gordon as to return of, 308;

fears for, 316;

Gordon unfortunate with, 324;

four at Berber, 351;

in sight, 358;

reported at Shoboloha, 382;

fire on Arabs at Omdurman, 384;

engaged, 387;

ordered to stay at Bourré, 391;

attack at Bourré, 393;

at Omdurman, 395.

Stewart, Col., left Kartoum for Dongola, 3;

his expedition passed Shendy, 34, 43;

and communication with Europe, 39;

Journal, fear as to non-publication of, 41;

mention of, 43;

capture by, with steamers, 43;

as witness of Gordon’s efforts, 56;

why Gordon did not escape with, 56;

steamers of, recapture steamers, 66;

and Hewitt’s mission, 76;

hard on men, 78;

receives note from Kitchener, 92;

charges troops with cowardice, 99;

sent up by Government, 124;

does not suspect Awaan, 133;

and Ibrahim Ruckdi, 167;

Gordon desires, to obtain information, 186;

mouse takes place of, at table, 188;

reported capture of, with Abbas, 193, 200;

and pay of Egyptian soldiers, 205;

death of, 214;

sent to reinforce, 252;

and the giving up of Berber, 263;

on board Abbas, 273;

left of his own free will, 274;

what Gordon wrote for, concerning his going, 274;

great service done by, in leaving Kartoum, 280;

escorted pass dangerous places, 280;

captured below Abou Hamed, 280;

did not chew the cud, nor suspicious, 281;

Gordon’s account of the landing of, 281;

Mudir’s account of the landing of, 281;

his death ordained, 282;

Gordon wishes for examination into death of, 282;

amount of gold and papers with, 283;

wounded near the Palace, 284;

at lowest ebb when left, 284;

took both copies of Journal, 285;

a martyr, 285;

contempt of for Soudanese, 286;

should have escaped in boats, 286;

Gordon’s defence for letting go, 287;

Gordon declined to order, 287;

on the Government, 288;

questions written by before leaving, 289;

Gordon, and money, to secure Journal of, 305;

Gordon hopes for revenge for the death of, 308;

every document but one went with, 309;

no dispatch written by Gordon concerning, 310;

brave, just, upright gentleman, 310;

wrote full details of Hicks’s army and defeat, 344;

left three months, 389;

account of voyage of, 442;

spares some Arabs, 443;

sanguine of getting through, 444;

arrival of, at Kartoum, 471;

departure of, for Egypt, 487;

reported dead by Slatin Bey, 520;

Mahdi tells of capture of, 522.

Stokes, of Suez Canal, 43.

Stomach governs the world, 14, 184.

Stores, returns of, 383, 393, 395;

Mahdi tells Gordon of, in Kartoum, 523.

Suakin, reported arrival of English at, 14;

to Berber, route from, 225-227;

and Massowah useless if Mahdi holds Soudan, 242;

besiege of, miraculous, 294;

meaning of non-firing on, 296;

useless if Mahdi holds Soudan, 296;

spread of rebellion to, 499;

reinforcements sent to, 500.

Suleiman, reply to Gordon sent by, 402.

Suleiman Pasha, removal of, 494;

Wady Goun, steamer fell into hands of, 546.

Sultan, give over the country to the, 48, 49;

Gordon’s promises as to, 433;

Haroun and Slatin Bey, 453.

Sun, partial eclipse of, 194.

Suspicion, Stewart and Gordon compared with regard to, 281.

T.

Talataween struck, 106;

in from Shendy, 205;

for Shendy, 206;

summary of reports brought by, 207.

Telegram, December, 1883, 311;

Gordon cannot decipher, 359, 360.

Telegrams, two sets of, sent off by spy, September 10, 3;

from Floyer, 92;

humility in, from Baring, 102;

from Nubar Pasha to Gordon, 102;

from Gordon to Baring, 103;

cannot decipher, from Lord Wolseley, 273;

Gordon captured all European, 284;

received in Soudan, 345;

Mahdi details contents of the captured, 523.

Telegraph forms used for Journal, 250.

Tel-el-Kebir, 60.

Thirst, Hicks’s army perished from, 344.

Times’ correspondent, charge against, 22;

Powers’ telegrams in, 39;

confusion in, as to the Wilsons, 61;

and execution of the Pashas, 62;

extract from, note, 86;

and Gordon’s Journals, 283;

to have first offer of Doctor’s Journal, 283.

Tokar, relief of, 146;

Mahdi gained confidence by victory of, 296.

Tongi, sent to reinforce, 252;

and Co., 272.

Towfik Pasha, 117, 118;

and Gordon not friends, 123;

wish law, 125;

and the Porte, 221;

Firman of, 285, 309;

farce of Northbrook asking, for assistance, 306;

telegram from, explained, 371;

Wolseley and Baring subordinate to, 371;

and authority over Soudan, 372;

expeditionary force, allies of, 373;

and death of Hicks, 348;

cancels his Firman, 359;

telegram to Ulemas from, 359;

Gordon publishes telegram of, 362;

telegram to Ulemas from, 364;

and appointment of Governor-General, 369.

Towfikia, fell on the Arabs, 30;

above Giraffe, 35;