sugar-cane and tobacco cultivated at, 241 telegraph at, 257 Kassala Province (Taka): coffee from, 239 cotton from, 241 educational facilities non-existent in, 223 Egyptian tyranny over, 144 finances of, 259 Kerma, 229 Kerreri, 168, 183 Khalifa Abdullah: Mahdi succeeded by, 165; advance of, 166; tyranny of, 167, 186; fall of, 168; house of, 180; carriage of, 181; learning suppressed by, 216 Khanoon Humayoum, 201 Khartoum: British battalion at, maintenance of, 263 climate of, 179 court of appeal at, 202 fall of, to the Mahdi, 165 football at, 220 gardens at, 235 Gordon besieged in, 164 Gordon College at. See Gordon College Greek traders in, 246 gum sorting at, 240 journey to, from Alexandria, 173-177 mudirieh of, 191 mutiny at, 192 Nile, discharges of, 6, 8; view of, 179 primary school at, 218, 219, 222 quarters and condition of, 178, 179 situation of, 5, 177 slave-trade centre at, 144 Suakin, railway connection with, project of, 230, 231, 244, 256, 267-269, 277 telegraph to Duem from, 257 Khartoumers, 145, 149 Khor Baraka, 242 Khor Gash, 187, 228; alluvial deposits of, 241, 242 Kind, payment in, 252 Kitchener, Lord: advance of, blocked by sudd, 129; successes of, 168; interest of, in Gordon College, 216-218 Koran, study of, 221, 222 Kordofan: Achmet’s conquest of, 143 cotton goods, demand for, in, 270 Egyptian tyranny over, 144 feathers from, 239, 241 gum from, 180 iron in, 245 Mahdi, a, captured in, 162, 195, 272 mixed race in, 190 nature of country, 188 Nuba settlers in, 140; raiding by, 193 profits of, 258 rising in (1878), 156 situation of, 191 tobacco and sugar-cane in 241 Korosko, 174; desert, 168 Korti, 165, 176 Kosheh, 165 Kurshid, 144 Kuttabs, 221-223 Lado, Nile discharges at, 6, 8 Lado Enclave, 188, 261 Lakes, 20, 21 Lawrence, Lord, 44 Linant Pasha, 27, 46 Liotard, M., 169 Lupton Bey, 164 Luxor, 174 McKillop Pasha, 153 Mahdi, the (Sheikh Mohammed Ahmed): rising of, 160-165; death of, 165; tomb of, 181; attitude of, towards Sheikh-es-Senussi, 273 Mahdis, various, 195, 272, 276 Maize (Indian corn), 40, 55 Malaria, 189, 234 Mamurs, 192, 202 Manures, 36, 37 Marchand, Captain, 169, 170 Mareotis, Lake, 20 Marno, 129 Martial law, 200 Martyr, Colonel, 129 Massowah: Egyptian army’s retreat to, 154 Ismail’s purchase of, 149 Italian possession of, 169, 274 Mather, Sir W., 217, 221 Mehemet Ali: career and works of, 23-29; scientific expedition despatched by, 127; Soudanese Empire founded by, 139, 141, 142; otherwise mentioned, 70, 71 Mekhemeh Sharia, 203 Menelik, King, 154, 193 Menes, King, 4, 13 Menoufia, 45, 64 Menzalah, Lake, 20, 21 Merowe, 165, 168