Nileland, one authority for, 135, 275, 276 Nili, 11 No, Lake, 119, 120, 193; origin of, 124, 125 Nubas, 140, 193 Nubia: antiquities of, 174 Gold Mining Company in, 232 native boatmen in, 175 Nubian Desert, 135, 175 Nuers, 193 Omdurman: buildings, etc., in, 181, 182 characteristics of, 179, 180 Government factories at, 177 Greek traders in, 245, 246 growth of population of, under Khalifa, 167 industrial school at, 220, 221 Kitchener’s capture of, 168 market of, 168, 181, 182, 271 primary school at, 218, 219; training college in connection with, 204, 222, 223; kuttab in connection with, 222 railway to El Obeid from, suggested, 232 situation of, 180 Taaisha tribe settled at, 167 Osman Digna, 165, 166 Ostrich-farming, 241. See also Feathers Papyrus, 125 Peel, Captain Sir William, quoted, 135, 136 Perfumeries, 183, 230, 237, 238 Philæ, 75-77, 94, 174 Pibor River, 187 Portland cement, 52, 53, 82 Pumping. See under Irrigation Pyramids, 27, 63, 94 Rahad River, 6, 187, 242 Ramadan, 93 Raouf Pasha, 152, 153, 159 Rayah Behera, 45 Rayah Menoufia, 45 Rayah Tewfiki, 45 Reform, native attitude towards, 106 Reid, Mr., 44, 50 Rejaf, 119, 169 Reproductive works, 88, 104 Reservoir, ancient, 70, 71, 95 modern. See Assouan Dam Rhodes, Cecil, 257 Rice, cultivation of, 41, 42; imports of, 237, 238 ‘Ride across the Nubian Desert, A,’ 135, 136 Ripon Falls, 133 Rosaires: cataracts of, 117 slave-trade suppression inspector at, 212 steamer communication with, 233 Rosetta Barrage: appearance of, 96, 97 cement used in, amount of, 53 construction of, 46, 47, 50-53 cost of repairs to, 51 effect of, in 1884, 49, 50 Mehemet Ali’s scheme for, 27 structure of, 44 subsidence in, 30, 43, 47 weir to relieve, 54, 55 Ross, Colonel, 44, 89 Rubber (guttapercha), 239, 244; tax on, 253 Rumbek, 194 Ruwenzori, 135 Sabaini, 41 Said Pasha: corvée employed by, 62; desirous of evacuating Soudan, 146; reforms of, 147 Sakiehs (water-wheels): numbers of, between Khartoum and Berber, 234, 235 structure of, 34 taxation of, 147, 250 Salt, injurious effect of, 19, 40 Scents, 183, 230, 237, 238 Scott-Moncrieff, Sir Colin: Baring’s support of, 44; decision of, on pumping-stations, 48; intercedes for Mougel Bey, 58 Seasons, 10, 11, 35 Setit River, 187 Semliki River, 121 Senna, 239 Sennar: Arabian settlements in (A.D. 700), 139 civilization, former, 140, 141, 272 cotton formerly grown in, 242 Egyptian tyranny over, 144 finances of, 259 kuttab at capital of, 222 Mahdi in, 162 murder case from, 207 situation of, 191 telegraph in, 257 University formerly in, 272 Sennar, Island of. See Ghezireh Serut fly, 233, 234 Shadoofs, 32-34