Delen, 4;
and the Sudan, 34;
Abdullah and, 254-6, 257-69;
and the Sudan, 123, 323;
Wad Adlan and, 326;
the Mahdi and, 110.

Egyptian troops, Hicks Pasha's, 77-90, 92-3.

El Eilafun, 127.

_El Fasher_, steamer, 128.

El Merhdi Abu Rof, 164, 226-7.

El Obeid, 2, 6;
garrison of, 10, 21;
the Mahdi and, 11, 20, 29, 36-41;
description of, 34-6;
siege of, 52-7, 232;
Zogal at, 75;
the Mahdi leaves, 85, 99-100;
triumphal return to, 91-3, 170-2;
King Adam at, 95;
Lupton Bey at, 176;
small-pox in, 183;
revolt of black soldiers at, 189-200, 223;
slaves at, 383-4.

El Obeid, Sheikh, 124, 127, 130, 315.

El Teb, battle of, 266.

Elephants, 3; in Darfur, 241.

Elias el Kurdi, 210.

Elias Pasha, 10, 12, 21, 35, 40, 76, 88, 93;
son of, 86.

Elias Wad Kanuna, emir, 271.

Emin Pasha, 11;
Gordon and, 133;
and Lupton Bey, 176;
Khalifa Abdullah and, 269-72.

Emirs, the, of the Sudan provinces, 46, 312.

England and Egypt, 262;
and the Sudan, 450.

English mail, capture of an, 120.

English Relief Expedition to Khartum, 147-9, 176-8;
and Kababish tribe, 232;
at Dongola, June 1885, 256.

Equatoria, Abdullah's expedition to, 269-72.

Exports from Kordofan, 35.

Fadl Maula Bey, 163, 271, 401.

Fallata tribe, 278, 283.

Famines; in El Obeid, 183-4;
in the Sudan, 252-3;
in Dongola, 261;
in Omdurman, 284-9;
in Berber, 290;
in the Provinces, 290-1.

Farag Pasha, 135, 143.

Faragallah Pasha, 131-2, 247.

Farquhar, Colonel Arthur, 79, 80.

Fasher, El, 94;
besieged, 239-41.

Fashoda, 9, 11, 29, 269, 272, 379, 384, 396;
corn from, 285.

Fedasi, 125.

Festivals, Khalifa Abdullah and, 362.

Fiki, Abdullah and the name, 274, 402.

Flags of the Khalifas, 15, 16, 281, 306.

Furs, annihilation of the, 236.

Galabat, province and town, 167, 217-9, 230, 242, 244;
attack on, 247-8, 396;
famine at, 290.

Gallows at Omdurman, 283, 317-8.

Gedaref, garrison of, 216-7, 290.

Gedir, Jebel, 3, 7, 10, 20, 223.

Gehena tribe, 226-7, 260-1.

Gellabas (traders), 14-5, 112, 189, 426, 428.

Georges Bey, Dr., 86;
son-in-law of, 141.

Gessi Pasha, 2;
and the slave trade, 8-9, 241, 383.

Gezireh, the Mahdi and, 14, 64, 93-4, 229, 284, 315, 380, 390.

Ghazali, Sheikh, 310-1, 35