iver, 249.

Aulad-belad, the, 391-2, 405-6, 449.

Austrian Mission, at Delen, 4-5, 24-30;
church at Khartum, 137-8;
at El Obeid, 200;
_see also_ "Sisters."

Awad el Kerim Abu Sin, 350.

Baggara tribe, 3, 14-5, 20, 25-6, 32, 49, 78, 106, 162-3, 178, 221,
255, 258, 266, 287, 293, 314, 325, 341;
horsemanship of, 308;
emirs, 312;
women, 381;
masters of the Sudan, 387-407, 449;
_see also_ "Taisha Arabs."

Bahr el Arab, 3.

Bahr el Ghazal, slave trade in, 8-9, 12, 176, 383;
revolt in, 241.

Bahr el Karrar, 257-8.

Baker Pasha, General Valentine, defeat of, 119;
at El Teb, 266.

Banners of the Mahdi's Khalifas, _see_ "Flags."

Bara town, 11, 55, 77, 200-2, 235;
fall of, 56.

Barabra tribe, 125, 255, 391, 399;
language of, 283.

Bashra, the Mahdi's son, 159.

Batahin tribe, 205, 260, 315-20.

Bayuda Desert, 16.

Bederieh Arabs, the, 3, 11, 20, 106, 167.

Beit el mal at Omdurman, 208-14, 312, 323, 380, 393-5.

Ben en Naga Bey, 21, 88-9;
son of, 333;
daughter of, 343.

Benga village, 430.

Beni Helba tribe, 240.

Beni Jerrar Arabs, 35, 238.

Berber, 1, 14;
fall of, 121, 124-5;
Gordon at, 123, 208, 256, 312, 380, 396, 430, 439;
Osman Digna at, 266, 268;
old, 275;
famine in, 290.

Berghof, a German, 9.

Birket, 3, 11, 20-1, 28, 34, 86, 91.

Bishir, 197, 224, 227.

Bishir Bey, 259.

Blue Nile, 126, 133-4, 150, 204, 227, 379;
towns on the, 284.

Bonomi, Father, 1, 5, 27, 31-2, 43, 50, 56, 68-71, 73, 97, 100, 118,
170, 172-3;
escape of, 178-84, 186, 352.

Books, the Mahdi and, 63;
Khalifa Abdullah and, 299, 400-1.

Borgo, Sultan of, 12, 237.

Brick-making at Delen, 5.

Bringi, executioner at Omdurman, 318, 325, 356.

British East Africa, Imperial, Co., 271.

'Bruce's Travels' and the Batahin tribe, 315.

Buri village, 125, 132.

Busata village, 174.

Cairo, 1, 254;
merchants of, and El Obeid, 35;
Ohrwalder's arrival at, 443.

Camels, in Kordofan, 35-6, 379;
of the Gehena tribe, 226, 228;
of the Kababish tribe, 232, 234;
for Ohrwalder's escape, 422, 427, 442.

Cattle in Dar Nuba, 4;
in Kordofan, 35;
of the Arabs, 126;
of the Gehena tribe, 226;
breeding in the Sudan, 376-9;
cows of the Shilluks, 379.

Cemetery, European, at Khartum, 150.

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