government of, 261 irrigation. See Irrigation Egypt, Lower: crops, table of, 38 irrigation improvement in, due to Dam, 83 Egypt, Upper: basin irrigation in, 16 characteristics of, 68, 69 crops in— cotton, 41 rice, 42 summer, 39; increase in, due to Barrage, 50, 51, 55 table of, 38 cultivable land in, 13, 37 Egyptians: Arab attitude towards, 223 army— fellaheen’s dislike to service in, 33, 265 officers, grievances of, 108, 109 British rule, attitude towards, 107-109 characteristics of, 106, 109; physical, 33, 180 slave-trade encouraged by, 145, 154, 155 Soudan— Government posts in, held by, 197, 198, 266 misrule of, 144-148 El Fasher, 164 El Nemr, 143 El Obeid: gum from, 181, 240 Mahdi’s victory over, 162 railway to, from Omdurman, suggested, 232 slave-trade suppression inspector at, 212 Soudanese Cadi appointed to, 204 telegraph at, 257 El Teb, 164 Emin Bey, 151, 156 Equatoria: Baker’s expedition to, 128 Emin’s rule of, 156 Gordon appointed Governor-General of, 150 Eritrea, 187, 191, 274 Fakirs, 208-210 Famaka, 168, 187 Fashoda: French advance to, 169, 170 Shilluk rising at, 157 telegraph to, 257 Fashoda Province: cotton wild in, 241 finances of, 259 natives of, 193 situation of, 191 tobacco in, 241 Fatiko, 150 Fayoum: exceptional character of, 13 irrigated lands in, 31; increase of, due to Dam, 83 Mœris, Lake, in, 29 water-wheels in, 34 Fazokhl: British and Egyptian advance to, 168 Fungs at, 140 Ismail’s advance to, 142 tobacco produced at, 241 Feathers, exports of, from Soudan, 180, 239, 241; tax on, 253 Fellaheen. See Egyptians Finance. See under Egypt and Soudan Football, 220 Foster, E. W. P., 44 French: engineers, work of, 29. See also Mougel Fashoda, advance of, 169, 170 Wadai occupied by, 273 French Congoland, 187 Fuel, price of, 228, 255 Fungs, 140, 141 Gallabat: cotton grown at, 242 railway to, suggested, 232 telegraph at, 257 Garstin, Sir W.: surveys by, 44, 115, 123, 126; quoted, 114, 121, 122, 130; cited, 119, 122 Gash. See Khor Gash Gedaref: colony at, 228 cotton grown at, 242 Mahdi’s success at, 164 railway to, suggested, 232 telegraph at, 257 Gessi, 129, 157, 158 Gharbia, 45, 64 Ghazal River. See Bahr el Ghazal Ghezireh (Island of Sennar): profits of, 259 railway in, suggested, 232 situation of, 191 soil of, 191, 235, 236, 242 Ginnis, 165 Gizeh, irrigation improvement in, 83 Pyramids of, 63, 94 Godavery Dam, 74 Gold: Nile Valley Gold Mining Company, 232 prospecting licenses for, 245 undesirability of, for Soudan, 245 Golo tribe, 146, 194 Gondokoro (Ismailia):