Baker’s arrival at (1871), 150 boats plying to, 233 position of, 187 Gordon, General: Ismail’s employment of, 148; Governor-General of Equatoria, 150; attitude of, towards slave trade, 150, 151; advises occupation of Mombasa, 153; recalled to the Soudan, 155; quells Darfur rebellion, 155, 156; tours of, 156; returns to England, 157; sent to evacuate the Soudan, 163; death of, 165 Gordon College: bacteriological research laboratory at, 217, 224 buildings and situation of, 178, 214-217 character of, 217, 224 funds of, 216, 217 technical workshop apparatus at, 217, 221 Goz Abu Goma, 257 Graham, General, 164, 165 Granite at Assouan, 73, 81, 93; in the Atbara region, 189 Greek traders, 245, 246 Grenfell, General Lord, 166 Guinea worm, 234 Gum: exports of, from Soudan (1879-1881), 239; (1899-1900), 240 price of, 240 sorting of, 180 substitutes for, 240 tax on, 253 uses of, 239 Guttapercha (rubber), 239, 244; tax on, 253 Halfa (see also Wadi Halfa): British appearance of, 175 primary school at, 218, 222 situation of, 191 Halfa Province, profits of, 259 Halfaya: characteristics of, 177 industrial school to be removed to, 220 Hamegs, 140, 141, 143 Harrar, 152, 153, 156 Harûn, 156 Hashab, 239, 240 Hashin, 165 Hellet Abbas, 227 Herodotus, 70, 134 Hicks Pasha, 162 Hofrat-en-Nahas, 152, 169, 245 Hunter, General, 176 Ibrahim, 142 Ibrahimiyah Canal, 30, 63, 85, 89 India: administrators from, 43 Soudanese trade with, formerly, 231, 237, 238 Indian corn (maize), 40, 55 Iron, 146, 244 Irrigation: basin— extent of system in Upper Egypt, 16 improvements in, 15 invention of, 13 method of, 13-15 expenditure on, in twenty years, 88 perennial— advantages and disadvantages of, 25, 26 Corvée hardships incidental to, 61 high flood in relation to, 132 Mehemet Ali’s schemes of, 23-26 pumping-engines, 35; system of rotations, 56 responsibilities connected with, 111, 112 Soudan, in, need and scope for, 234-236, 242, 243 Islam, 160, 161 Ismail, Khedive: corvée employed by, 30, 31, 62; characteristics of, 31, 71; Soudan under, 139, 148; annexations by, 149, 169; slave policy of, 149; impending ruin of, 151 Ismail Pasha Ayoub, 128 Ismail (son of Mehemet Ali), 142, 143 Ismailia (Gondokoro), 150 Italians, Massowah under, 169, 274 stone-cutters, 82 Ivory, 180, 239, 253 Jaaffer Pasha, 147 Jaalin tribe, 167, 186 John, King of Abyssinia, 154 Juba River Expedition, 153, 154 Jur River, 131, 194, 233 Jur tribe, 146, 194 Justice, idea of, 205, 206 Kabbabish tribe, 166, 190 Kantar, equivalent of, 84 Karnak, 174 Kassala: colony at, 227, 228 cotton factory formerly at, 242 railway branch to, suggested, 232 situation of, 191
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