diseases of—‘worm’ and ‘hog’ non-existent, 244, 276 experimental farm at Shendi, 243 hardiness of, 84 irrigation of, 40-42; perennial, required, 24 seasons of, 40, 41 Soudan suitable for, 237, 241, 242; quality produced, 243 value of, 39 Cotton goods: Soudanese imports of, 237, 238; demand in Kordofan, 270 Cotton, raw: Soudanese exports of, 239, 241 Cotton, Sir Arthur, 74 Cromer, Lord (Sir Evelyn Baring): Lord Lawrence compared with, 43, 44; on the Barrage, 58; arranges financial difficulties of Reservoir scheme, 78, 79, 82; importance of work represented by, 100; insight of, 105; promise of, regarding education, 225; confidence in, 274; Report of, quoted, 205, 267, 268 Dabik, 21 Dam. See Assouan Dam Damietta Barrage: construction of, 47, 49-53 cost of repairs to, 51 effect of, in 1884, 50 useless condition of, formerly, 30, 43 Damirah, 21 Danagla tribe, 167 Dar Nuba, 180 D’Arnaud, 127 Darfur: Belgian advance to, 169 disturbance on borders of, 192 feathers from, 180, 239, 241 founding of sultanate of, 140 independence of, 190, 274 Ismail’s annexation of, 151, 152 Khalifa from, 165 nature of country, 188 rebellion in (1877), 155, 156; revolt against the Khalifa, 166 Sultan of, 190, 192, 193, 274 Dates, Dongola varieties of, 229 tax on, 39, 252 Dem Zubehr, 169, 194 Dembo tribe, 146 Dervishes, 165, 166, 186, 191 Dinder River, 187, 242 Dinka tribe, 145, 180, 194 Diseases: blackwater fever, 194 cholera, 144 malaria, 189, 234 research connected with, 225 Dhurra, 236, 276 Dongola: colony at, a failure, 227 dervish occupation of, 165 fakir charged with poisoning in, 208-210 Kitchener’s occupation of, 168 kuttab, model, established at, 222 situation of, 191 Dongola Expedition (1896), 166 Dongola Province: climate of, 229 cotton in, 242; prospects of investment in, 244 dates in, 229 irrigation needed in, 235 Land Commission in, 202 land-tax, proportion contributed by, 259 language of, 190 Mahdi, the, a native of, 160 population of, 230 profits of, 258, 259 railway in, 229, 230 sakiehs, derelict, in (1881), 148 sugar-cane cultivated in, 241 taxation in, remission of, 249; incidence of, formerly, 250 trade of, 230 Drainage, 87, 88 Duem: district near, 235 gum from, 240 railway from, suggested, 232 telegraph at, 257 Duffile, 5, 119, 169 Ed Damer, 272 Edka, Lake, 20 Education. See under Soudan Egypt: Abyssinia, relations with. See under Abyssinia Agricultural Bank, 105 cultivable land in, situation of, 13; amount of, 37 finances of— Agricultural Bank, 105 Caisse de la Dette, 78 international complications of, 78 reproductive expenditure, 88, 104