Abbas Pasha, 30 Abd-el-Kader, 160 Abd-el-Rahman the Just, 151 Abu Hamed, 168, 175, 176, 229 Abu Simbel, temple of, 174 Abu Zeid, 125 Abyssinia: Bonchamps Expedition from, 170 coffee from, 239, 241 Egypt— annexations by, 153 defeat by, 144 defeat of, 154 frontier settlement with, 193, 232, 274 gold district in, 245 Gordon’s arrangement with, 155 Khalifa at war with, 166 Nile, treaty regarding (1902), 113 scenery and climate on frontier of, 189 Sennar triumph over, 140, 141 slave-raiding on frontier of, 211 trade with— cotton in demand for, 242 railway suggested to open up, 232 Sobat as route for, 233 Achmet Bey, 143 Acre, 24, 28 Adlan, King, 140, 144 Agricultural Banks, 105, 234 Ahmed Hamad, 207 Aird and Co., 81 Akobo River, 187 Albert Edward Lake, 121 Albert Nyanza: Baker’s discovery of, 149 circumnavigation of, 151, 157 dam on, scheme for, 118-123 regulator at, suggestion of, 132, 133 Alexandria, journey from, to Khartoum, 173-177 Ali Dinar, Sultan of Darfur, 190, 192, 193, 274 Amara Dunkas, 140 Ambadi, Lake, 126 American Medical Mission, 223 Angarebs, 182 ‘Antiquos,’ 182 Arabia, slave demand in, 212 Arabic, 198, 224 Arabs: as engineers, 29 characteristics of, 223, 225 intermixture with negroes, 140 misrule by, 19 slave-trade carried on by, 140, 142 Soudanese settlements of (A.D. 700), 139 Training College for, 204, 222, 223 views on slavery, 213 Ardrup, 154 Argin, 166 Assiout Barrage: beneficial effect of, 89 construction of, 85, 86 cost of, 88, 89 Assouan: granite outcrop at, 73, 81, 93; quarries, 93, 94 journey to, from Luxor, 174 maximum flood at, variations in, 11 Nile discharges at, 6-10, 75, 89 prosperity of, 91 ‘red’ water at, 8 site of, 92 Assouan Dam: appearance of, 95-98 Barrage in relation to, 28 beneficial effects of, 82-84 compensation cases arising from, 103, 104 construction of— difficulties of, 82 numbers employed in, 82 time allowed for, 81 cost of, 88 dimensions of, 82 distribution of water stored by, 82, 83, 85 financial arrangements regarding, 79, 84 inauguration of, 92, 98-102 locks on west side of, 82, 96 nature of, 74, 75 Philæ champions’ effect on, 76 suggestion of, 72, 73 volume of water to be provided by, if raised to full height, 114 Atbara, Battle of the, 168, 176 Atbara River: basin irrigation on, suggested, 236 disappearance of, 6, 10 flood-water on, date of, 8 intercepting of, suggested, 133 junction of, with Nile, 5 railway to cross, project of, 230 soil in district of, 189 Austrian R.C. Mission, 223 Azande (Niam-Niams), 145, 194 Baadi, King, 140, 141