Meshra el Rek, 168, 194 Messalamia, 257 Metemmeh: Achmet’s massacre at, 143 Jaalin massacred at, 186 relief expedition to, 165 Military government, nature of, 198 Missionaries, sphere of, 223 Mœris, Lake, 29, 70 Mohamed Pasha Said, 162 Mohammed Ahmed, Sheikh. See Mahdi Mohammedan law, sacred, 203, 204 Universities, 215 Moncrieff, Sir Colin Scott. See Scott-Moncrieff Mongalla, 187 Mombasa, Gordon’s advice regarding, 153; railway, 118 Mosque el Azhar, 109 Mosquitoes, 126, 132, 234, 276 Mougel Bey, 29, 30, 46, 58 M’tesa, King, 150, 151 Mukhtar Pasha, 102 Mudirs, 191, 192, 258 Napoleon, 27, 28; letter of, to Abd-el-Rahman, 151 Navigation of canals, freedom of, 45 Negroes: Arabian intermixture with, 140, 189, 190 Barun, 211 Nejumi, 166 Neufeld, Charles, 181 Niam-Niams (Azande), 145, 194 Nile River: Bahr el Zeraf— course of, 126-128 scheme regarding, 120 slave stations on, 150 Blue- course of, between Lake Tsana and Khartoum, 116 exploration of (1902-1903), 115 flood on, date of, 8; suggestion of intercepting, 133 height of banks of, above Khartoum, 235 irrigation works on, arguments for, 117, 236 junction of, with White Nile, 184 Khartoum, discharges at, 6, 8; viewed from, 179 traffic on, 233 cataracts of, 6 course of, 5 Dam. See Assouan Dam Damietta branch of— Barrage on. See Damietta Barrage Mehemet Ali’s plan regarding, 27 Zifta Barrage on, 87 deflection of, by ancient enemies of Egypt, 112, 113 discharges of, 6-10, 75, 89 ‘green’ water, 7 floods, corvée during, 65, 66 gauges of, 66 importance of, 4, 112, 113, 184, 277 low, period of recurrence of, 83, 84 ‘red’ water, 8 Reservoir. See Assouan Dam rise of, dates of, 7-9 Rosetta branch of, Barrage on. See Rosetta Barrage Somerset, 5, 120, 121 special measures regarding, in 1900, 56, 57 sudd in. See Sudd sunsets on, 76 weirs on, to relieve Barrage, 54 White- Austrian R.C. Mission on, 223 Bahr el Gebel— Baker’s ascent of, 128 channel of, 119, 124 course of, 125 danger from excessive flood in, 132 sudd in, 126, 129 Baker’s expedition up (1861), 149 bed of, 119 discharge of, maximum, 8 garrisons on, 151 ‘green’ water in, 7 importance of, 9 islands in, irrigation on, 235 junction of, with Blue Nile, 184 Mehemet Ali’s scientific expedition sent to, 127 name of, 5 population on, 119 slave-trade along, 145 traffic on, 233 Valley of, 118 Zero, meaning of, 11 Nile Valley— Administration of, varieties in, 261 trade route by, 231, 237, 254, 268 Nile Valley Gold Mining Company, 232