Sugar, Soudanese imports of, 238, 241, 265 Sugar-cane, 39, 41, 241 Suleiman (son of Zubehr), 152, 155-157 Sultâni, 41 Taaisha tribe, 165, 167 Taboot, 34 Taha Ali, 207, 208 Taiara, 239 Taka. See Kassala Tamai, 164, 165 Tamarinds, 239 Taufikieh, 223 Taxation: collection of taxes— extortion formerly connected with, 159, 160, 248, 250 Shilluk King’s attempts at, 193 time of, 105, 248 principles of, 248, 249 reduction of, 105 remission of, 249 sakiehs, of, 147, 250 slave trade fostered by excessive, 250 Soudan, in. See Soudan, taxation in Tembura, 169 Tewfik, Khedive, 157 Thames, discharges of, at Teddington, 9 note Thebes, Plain of, 174 Timbuctoo, fakir from, 208-210 Tinnis, 21 Tobacco, 237, 238, 241 Tokar: cotton produced at, 242 garrison at (1883), 164 recapture of (1891), 166 telegraph at, 257 Tonj, 194 Torricelli, Signor, 73 Toski, 166 ‘Track of the forty days,’ 142 Trade. See Soudan, trade in Transvaal War, 186, 200 Tribute, 192, 250, 251 Tsana, Lake: dam at, scheme of, 116-118 exploration of (1902-1903), 115 site of, 116 treaty regarding (1902), 113 Tunah, 21 Tuti Island, 143, 177 Turkey: Commissioner from, for proposed British evacuation, 102 Soudanese attitude towards, 142, 193 Suakin and Massowah purchased from, 149 suzerainty of, over Egypt, but not over Soudan, 261 Zeila purchased from, 153 Uganda: administration of, 261 Baker’s relations with, 150 British protectorate over, declared, 169 dams on lakes in, scheme of, 118-123 Gordon’s treaty with, 151 railway along Abyssinian frontier to, suggested, 232 Soudanese boundary of, 187 swamps in, 6 telegraph tariff to obtain in, 257 ‘Um soof,’ 126, 129 Umbrellas, imports of, 238 Unyoro, 150, 169 Ushur, 252 Vansleb, F., quoted, 71, 112 Victoria Nyanza, dam on, scheme for, 118-123 regulator at, suggested, 132, 133 Wad Medani; district from, to Duem, 235 flour-mills at, 234 kuttab, model, at, 222 railway to, suggested, 232 telegraph at, 257 Wadai, 273 Wadi Halfa (see also Halfa): railway from, 168 voyage to, from Shellal, 174 Wages, increase in, 109 Wau, 131, 194, 233 Water-wheels. See Sakiehs Wellcome, Mr., 217, 224 Western, Colonel, 44, 50 Whale-headed stork, 5 White ants, 256, 276 White Nile. See under Nile Whitehouse, Cope, 72 Willcocks, Sir William: work of, on Rosetta Barrage, 48, 49; report of, on Nile Dam, 73; cited, 128; otherwise mentioned, 44, 64 Wingate, Sir Reginald: position of, 185; age of, 197; quoted on possibilities of irrigation, 235, 236 Wodehouse, General, 166 Yusuf Pasha, 162 Zeila, 153 Zifta Barrage, 87, 88 Zubehr, 150, 152, 155, 157, 163 THE END