[Illustration: _By kind permission of_ _F. Lundt, Berlin._ H.M. KING EDWARD VII. _By kind permission of_ _Dittrich, Cairo._ H.H. THE KHEDIVE ABBAS HILMI PASHA.] (_To face p._ 1.) [_All rights reserved._ =THE ANGLO-EGYPTIAN SUDAN:= =A COMPENDIUM PREPARED BY OFFICERS OF THE SUDAN GOVERNMENT.= EDITED BY LIEUT.-COLONEL COUNT GLEICHEN, C.V.O., C.M.G., D.S.O. (_Late Director of Intelligence, Sudan Government and Egyptian Army, and Sudan Agent, Cairo._) * * * * * IN TWO VOLUMES. * * * * * =VOLUME I.= (GEOGRAPHICAL, DESCRIPTIVE, AND HISTORICAL.) (_With eighty-two illustrations._) * * * * * LONDON: PRINTED FOR HIS MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE, BY HARRISON AND SONS, ST. MARTIN’S LANE, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY. * * * * * And to be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from WYMAN AND SONS, LTD., FETTER LANE E.C.; or OLIVER & BOYD, EDINBURGH; or E. PONSONBY, 116, GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN. * * * * * 1905. _Price Ten Shillings._ (Wt. 8207 1500 9 | 05—H & S 3874) PREFACE. * * * * * The following pages contain a comprehensive description of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1905. This includes revision and amplification of the “Handbook of the Sudan” (1898) and of the “Supplement to the Handbook of the Sudan” (1899), besides a great deal of additional information as to the resources, development, administration, commerce, etc., of the country, shewing its progress since 1899. It may, however, be well understood that the description of many parts of the country is still far from complete. The chapters have been compiled by various officers in the Sudan Administration; but the main work of editing and revision has fallen on Lieut.-Colonel Count Gleichen (the Editor), who, from the somewhat indiscriminate mass of reports, documents and books at his disposal, has evolved a compendium which cannot fail to be of great use and value to the officers and officials of the Sudan Government. I even venture to hope that such of the general public as may be interested in this vast country, its history, and its future, will find in the following pages a useful work of reference until a more complete and comprehensive work is forthcoming.