VI. The Soudan: its Past, Present, and Future . . . 349–359 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 1. Neufeld as found by the Sirdar . . . _Frontispiece_ 2. An Arab Guide . . . 8 3. The Khaleefa’s Eunuchs at Attention . . . 37 4. The Khaleefa’s Tender Mercies . . . 45 5. Sheikh ed Din’s Eunuch in his Master’s Marriage-Jibbeh . . . 64 6. Writing under Difficulties . . . 77 7. A Group of Prisoners . . . 84 8. Learning the Mahdi’s Ratib . . . 94 9. Idris-es-Saier . . . 103 10. Catarina . . . 114 11. A Flogging by Order of the Khaleefa . . . 129 12. Meal-time in the Saier . . . 143 13. Moussa Daoud el Kanaga . . . 154 14. Mankarious Effendi with Guides . . . 164 15. Umm es Shole and two Children . . . 189 16. Said Bey Gumaa . . . 203 17. Fauzi Pasha in Dervish Dress . . . 218 18. Neufeld’s Hut in the Saier, showing the Famous Anvil . . . 223 19. Onoor Issa . . . 226 20. Powder-machines . . . 236 21. A Group—from Photograph taken at the Feast of Beiram, 1899 . . . 242 22. Neufeld doubly fettered . . . 252 23. Shereef, the “False Fourth Khaleefa” . . . 263 24. The Flag of Khaleefa Shereef . . . 273 25. Trophies taken at Omdurman . . . 282 26. Khaleel Agha Orphali . . . 303 27. Hassan Bey Hassanein . . . 325 28. Fauzi Pasha in Uniform . . . 340 29. Ahmed Youssef Kandeel . . . 346 Map showing Proposed Route and Route actually taken by Caravan . . . 15 Sketch accompanying Author’s Account of Capture . . . 23 Plans of Palace at Khartoum illustrating the Death of Gordon . . . 334 |1| A PRISONER OF THE KHALEEFA INTRODUCTION Within seventy-two hours of my arrival in Cairo from the Soudan, I commenced to dictate my experiences for the present volume, and had dictated them from the time I left Egypt, in 1887, until I had reached the incidents connected with my arrival at Omdurman as the Khaleefa’s captive, when I became the recipient of a veritable sheaf of press-cuttings, extracts, letters, private and official, new and old, which collection was still further added to on the arrival of my wife in Egypt, on October 13.