Babu class non-existent, 224 Baggara tribes, 190 Bahr el Gebel. See Nile, White Bahr el Ghazal: Kitchener’s gunboats on, 168 sudd in, 126, 131 waste of, 5, 124, 125 Bahr el Ghazal Province: finances of, 259 French advance into, 169, 170 Gessi’s exploits in, 157 iron in, 244 nature of country, 189 rubber from, 239, 244 situation of, 191 slave-trade in, 145, 150 Suleiman’s revolt in, 156 tribes in, 194 waterways in, 189, 233 Bahr el Homr, 169 Bahr el Zeraf. See under Nile Bahr Yusuf, 29, 31, 85 Baker, Sir Benjamin, 70 Baker, Sir Samuel: dam suggested by (1867), 73; travels of (1863 and 1870), 128; Ismail’s employment of, 148, 149 Baker, Valentine, 164 Baksheesh, 103 Bari tribe, 180 Baring, Sir E. See Cromer Baro River, 187 Barrage, nature of, 46. See also Damietta and Rosetta Barun negroes, 211 Basin irrigation. See under Irrigation Belgians, advance of, 169 Lado Enclave leased to, 188 Beni Gerrar, 190 Beni Omr, 139 Beni Shangul, 142, 245 Berber: colony at, a failure, 227 fakir suspected of murder in, 210 Kitchener’s occupation of, 168 kuttab, model, established at, 222 railway from Suakin to, project of, 165, 230, 231, 244, 256, 267-269, 277 rebuilding of, 177 situation of, 191 telegraph from, to Suakin, 256, 257 Berber Province: cotton in, 242; prospects of investment in, 244 finances of, 259 irrigation needed in, 235 sakiehs, derelict, in (1881), 148 sugar-cane cultivated in, 241 taxation in, remission of, 249; incidence of, formerly, 250 Berea, 20 Berms, nature of, 16; irrigation of, 32, 37 Bersine (Egyptian clover), 36, 39-41 Blackwater fever, 194 Blue Nile. See under Nile Bonchamps Expedition, 170 Bongo tribe, 145, 180, 194 Bor, 119, 124, 191 Borillos, Lake, 20 Boulé, M., 73 British rule, native attitude towards, 107-109, 263 Brooke, Mr., 55 Brown, Sir Hanbury, 44, 53, 55 Cadi, office of, 203, 204 Cairo: journey from, to Luxor, 174 Mohammedan University of, 109 Nile at— discharges of, 16, 17 ‘red’ water, 8 view of, 4 Caisse de la Dette, 78 Camels—breeding of, 190, 233; employment of, 232, 233 Cassel, Sir E., 79 Cattle-breeding, 190 Chak Chak, 194 Chaltin, 169 Channurmin, 194 Cholera, 144 Clover (bersine), 36, 39-41 Coal, price of, 228, 255; absence of, 245 Coast lands, sinking of, 21 Coffee, 239, 241 Commerce. See Soudan, trade Congo Free State, 169, 187 Copper-mines, 152, 245 Corruption, 103, 197 Corvée: abolition of, 64, 105 floods, during, 65, 66 Government right regarding, maintained, 65 hardship of, formerly, 44, 59-63 liability to serve in, 63 Mehemet Ali’s use of, 24, 27 periods of demand for, 62 remains of, 18 Cotton crop: