To sum up. The Soudan is a country which for nearly a century has been fighting against the establishment of any foreign government; its experience of a “benevolent” administration is of the very worst; the inhabitants sank all or nearly all differences between them when they rose to turn out the hated Turks; their experience of Christians has evidently not been of the best, else why the saying concerning Gordon? Large numbers are still loyal to the Khaleefa Abdullahi, and it will require but a very little mistake to make the inhabitants flock to his banner, or, what is worse, they will retire to the west and leave the country denuded of the population it stands in so much need of. Strangers are not wanted—they will be looked upon with suspicion until they have given evidence of their honest intentions towards the villagers; traders, before they may look for success, must overcome the prejudice of the people against European traders, a prejudice based upon experience of them formerly. And it is necessary for me to say that, after recent experience, it will take some time before the Muslim will believe that the Christian religion is anything but what he believes it to be, and he will be convinced that the boasted superiority of the European over the Arab does not hold good in the Soudan at all events. If those going to the Soudan will bear these points in mind, they will save themselves and others an infinity of trouble, and all barriers will be surmounted, if they keep in mind always the reputation Gordon made for himself for “Goodness and Justice,” and make Goodness and Justice their motto. |361| INDEX A Abbas, 246 _Abbas, The_, 325–328 Abdalla Rouchdi, 232, 333–336 Abdallah Sulieman, 236, 331 Abd el Kader Bey, 161, 189 Abd es Semmieh, 181, 209, 234 Abou-el-Gassim, 276 Abou Hamad, 232, 248 Abyssinian embassy, 246 Abyssinian expedition, 155, 221 Adultery, punishment of, 136, 137 Ahmed Abdel Maajid, 86, 121 Ahmed Youssef Kandeel, 346–348 Aid to wounded, 286–288 Ajjab Abou Jinn, 84, 102, 121 Ali Khaater, 180–182, 209 Alti, 182 Ansar, the, 42, 60, 97, 100–102, 130, 354 Arab tribes― Ababdeh, 9, 153 Alighat, 10, 23, 30, 31, 50, 60 Baggara, 212, 217, 230, 264–269, 276, 277, 281–283 Bedawi, 40, 55 Dabaanieh, 83 Danagli, 48 Dar Hamad, 8, 13, 54, 55 Digheem, 276 Dinkas, 357 Fellati, 171, 176, 209 Gawaamah, 98, 139, 188 Habbanieh, 276 Hadendowas, 88, 89 Hammadah, 84 Jaalin, 37, 59, 231, 244, 260, 266 Kabbabish, 2, 5, 8, 11, 22, 53, 54, 105, 167 Rhizaghat, 276 Shilluks, 357 Shukrieh, 84 Taaishi, 264, 267, 276, 346 Ardagh, Colonel, 5 Arsenal, 89, 178, 212, 226, 237–239 Assouan, 4–8, 52, 65, 77, 160–162 Atbara, battle of, 248, 249, 271 Austrian Consulate-general, 164, 168, 314 Austrian mission, 164, 233, 309 Awad el Kerim, 84; his three sons, 85 Awwad el Mardi, 226–239, 242, 244 B Bakah Wells, 53 Bakhita, 240