vous avez bien voulu me donner. J’ai fait des démarches pour faciliter
le voyage de notre consul de Berbér jusqu’au Caire, mais on m’assure
que les chemins de Berber à Debbeh ne sont pas libres; en tous cas, je
vous recommande chaudement la sécurité personnelle de notre consul et
des sujets Austro-Hongrois et Allemands. Je serai très heureux d’avoir
des nouvelles directes de Monsieur Hansall.”
I also enclose two letters that have arrived here for you.
I hope you have received some of my previous letters; I have received
none from you in reply.
* * * * *
ENCLOSURE IN APPENDIX X.
GENERAL,
I hope you will excuse me such an intermezzo.
Notwithstanding they abandoned you, and they did not at all follow your
instructions, I hope you will be victorious, and your name engraved in
the history of the world.
I am, dear General,
Your most obedient servant,
TH. ROTH.
* * * * *
To his Excellency General Gordon, Kartoum.
Berlin, 4th May, 1884.
DEAR SIR,
I had the honour to write you on the 10th of April, &c.
Meantime I permitted me to do the following:
On the 22nd of April I wired to Earl Granville: “For Heaven’s sake,
help Gordon, Kartoum.”
And confirmed this despatch with the following letter:—
To the Right Honourable Lord Granville, London.
Berlin, 22nd April, 1884.
“MY LORD,
“I have the honour to confirm my telegram of this afternoon: ‘For
Heaven’s sake, help Gordon, Kartoum.’
“Your Lordship may be kind enough to excuse such a telegram.
“As I am an admirer of Gordon, and as he had the kindness to do his
best to become liberated my brother Gottfried Roth, who is said
prisoner of the Mahdi, and to whom your Lordship congratulated when he
captured at Sint a band of slaveholders with several hundred slaves
some years ago, I considered it a duty to do something too for Gordon.
And so the idea to wire to your Lordship, who perhaps may be able in
consequence of your powerful position to let have Gordon what he wants.
“I have the honour, &c., &c.”
I had the pleasure to receive the following letter from the Secretary
of State, Sir J. Pauncefote:—
Foreign Office, 29th April, 1884.
“SIR,
“I am directed by Earl Granville to acknowledge the receipt of your
telegram and letter of the 22nd instant, urging that assistance may be
given to General Gordon at Kartoum.
“I am, Sir,
“Your most obedient humble servant,
(Signed) “J. PAUNCEFOTE.”
Roth did not get much change out of his Lordship!!
(C. G. GORDON.)
APPENDIX X[358].
Arabic Cypher Telegram.
Above message from Lord Wolseley, dated 20 September, forwarded by
messenger for second time, 15/10/84, from Debbeh.
H. H. KITCHENER,
D.A.A.G.
This is the only paper received.
C. G. G.
APPENDICES TO BOOK VI.
APPENDIX Y.
From the Khedive of Egypt.
To His Excellency Gordon Pasha, the Honourable.
(Literally “to His Felicity! ... —the excellent,” which is the usual
formula.)
As it is known to you that the object of the coming of your Excellency
to this part, and of your going to the Soudan, is only the evacuation
of that neighbourhood and the withdrawal of our troops, now found
there, with the Government officials of the realm, and the bringing
hither of those inhabitants of that part who may desire to come
together with their belongings, we trust that your Excellency will take
every care in the fulfilment of this Commission by employing the best
means and arrangements which may be necessary for the safety of those
troops and employés, and inhabitants and merchants, both native and
foreign, who may desire to come to this part.
Then, after completion of this (business), you will adopt the necessary
means and arrangements indispensable for framing a firm government in
the Soudan provinces, that there may be continuance of order in that
part, and that there may be security from the misfortunes (which must
befall) the ignorant populace (left) without a ruler. And I rely on
your understanding and courage, to which is intrusted the carrying out
of this commission in the manner desired.
(Sealed) MOHAMMED TEWFIK.
January 27, 1884.
(Seal of Mahomet Towfik).
From the Khedive of Egypt and its dependencies to all the Ulema,
Judges, Notables, Sheikhs of Arabs of villages, Merchants, and
all inhabitants, both Arabs and domesticated people in the Soudan
countries, greeting.
It is known to all that when my grandfather JANTIMGAN MAHOMED ALI took
the reigns of Government of the Lands of Egypt, he began to spread
knowledge and education and enlarge the sphere of agriculture and
commerce throughout the same, and increase the means of wealth of the
inhabitants, until Egypt was considered a well-cultivated and civilised
country. After that he saw the necessity of taking (or opening up) the
Soudan Region, to spread out the lights of civilisation therein—and
God Almighty prospered him in that enterprise. From that time until
now these regions have not ceased to grow in prosperity, until towns
and market cities were established and enlarged, and commerce grew,
and the inhabitants became enlightened by the means of commerce and
agriculture. By a comparison of the condition of the Soudan Regions
before these conquests, with their condition after it, it will clearly
appear that they progressed and advanced greatly during the latter
time. The minds of the people were enlightened by seeing their own
interest and prosperity. This was the only purpose which moved our
grandfather aforesaid to take these regions. But the great distance
that lies between me and you caused a disintegration which had for
its result the rising and rebelling of some disturbers against my
Government. This rebellion caused great losses of money and men without
any fruits at all; and the Land of Egypt sustained thereby very heavy
burdens. Therefore I have concluded to give back again independence
to the ancient families of the Kings of the Soudan Regions. And, as
I know that His Excellency Gordon Pasha, during his stay among you,
seeing that you witnessed the good results of his efforts for the
quiet and prosperity of the country. Therefore, and also because he
is deemed an able man of politics and of your judgment, and desirous
of your welfare, We have appointed him to proceed to those regions as
our representative, with full authority to agree with in establishing
a peaceable and amicable way of withdrawing from those parts, and
bringing away the officials of my Government and the troops with their
belongings and the property of my Government, so that the departure
from you may be brought about in perfect security. I therefore ask of
all who bear arms to throw the same away, and to endeavour, with all
diligence and quiet and peacefulness, to form their own Government of
the future within my boundaries, and to work for the prosperity of
their countries, and the security of the roads at all times; so that
between us and them the bonds of communication shall continue to exist
and so that commerce shall be rendered easy, which is conducive to
wealth, and so that civilisation and luxury may be furthered. And thus
the bonds of friendship may be kept up, as is dictated by the laws of
humanity.
Written on the 28th day of Rabia the First, 1301.
(January 26th, 1884).
NOTICE PUBLISHED BY GORDON.
Formerly the Government had decided to transport the Egyptians down to
Cairo, and abandon the Soudan: and in fact some of them had been sent
down during the time of Hussein Pasha Yusri, as you yourselves saw. On
our arrival at Kartoum, we, on account of pity for you, and in order
not to let your country be destroyed, we communicated with the Khedive
of Egypt, our Effendi, concerning the importance and the inexpediency
of abandoning it. Whereupon, the orders for abandoning the Soudan
were cancelled; and serious attention was turned, and all energy was
directed towards smothering the disturbances and driving away the
disturbers: therefore sufficient troops were appointed, both cavalry
and infantry some time ago; and indeed they have reached Dongola and
started in three divisions, one under the leader of the army and the
Mudir of Dongola is coming on to Berber: the second division has the
Sheikh of the Hawaweer, and is coming by way of Hobaji: the third
division, with Sheikh Saleh, son of Salim, Sheikh of the Kababeesh, is
coming to Metemma. Each one of these divisions is alone sufficient to
oppose all the rebels. They will soon be in Kartoum. We shall increase
in defence of the Soudan until the arrival of the troops here, as is
the will of the Khedive’s iradé issued to us on the 14th September,
1884. The Ulema and teachers of Kartoum had presented a telegram to the
Khedive asking for reinforcements—now an iradé of the Khedive has been
issued to them, a copy of which is given here above. Be therefore fully
reassured as to yourselves and your families, and all your possessions
in your houses, taking no heed of what has occurred in the past. If
God will in the next few days the siege will be raised, and your alarm
will pass away. Know also that if Mohammed Achmet should call upon me
for three years to surrender Kartoum I will not listen to him, but will
protect your lives and families and possessions with all energy and
stedfastness.
(Signed) GORDON PASHA.
APPENDIX AB.
Translation of a letter addressed to General Gordon by the Kalifa
Abdulla Mahommed, 10. 12. 85.
In the name of God the Merciful, the Compassionate. Praise be to the
Bountiful God, and blessings be upon our Lord Mahomed and upon his
family.
We, the servant of God ABDALLAH MOHAMMED JIFARAH, one of the governors
of the Mahdi, on whom be peace, on the East, to Gordon, the Pasha
of KARTOUM. You have paid no attention to the counsel and reasoning
repeatedly sent to you, but have increased in folly; and the numerous
kindly admonitions have only made you more haughty and wayward; because
truth enlightens the breasts of believers and only increases the
oppressors in their degenerations. Your letter has reached us, in which
you deceived the population, saying that the British reinforcement
is coming to you in three divisions, and that it will soon reach you
and give you victory; thus your letter betrays the greatness of your
fear, and anxiety, and alarm, as in your deceit you have caught hold
of spider-web ropes and have feared to die at our hands; thou must
inevitably die, O thou heathen! These promises you have been holding
them out since last year to the inhabitants of KARTOUM, and have been
promising them that the English will come soon. Your promise has only
increased their sorrows; and now that you are in straits, and that evil
is coming upon you, you are practising deceit from the interior of your
den (_sic_) in which God has imprisoned you, upon him who is in the
land of peace and crowned with exceeding much honour, and who is able
to get the news of riders arriving from the remotest regions. I ask,
do the sounds, winged and free, unfettered, need news from the like of
thee in the sea of billows covered by waves upon wave, above which are
clouds of darkness piled one over the other. Know thou, O thou enemy
of God, that the true news is with us and not with you, and that the
news which has reached us contains nothing to cheer thy eye or uphold
thy power; on the contrary, there is no escape for thee from death at
our hands, and from death by lack of food. But it is no wonder that
you deny the Mahdiship, for you did not believe in the Apostleship of
Mahomed; but the wonder is that the learned men of wickedness, who
are raised to prominent positions by you, and whom God has left to go
astray, and whose hearts He has closed, whose ears He has sealed, and
over whose eyes He has put a veil, since they have been satisfied with
you as a leader, and have taken you as a teacher, and have waged war
against Believers, and seek victory to those who believe in more than
one God, as though they had not heard the word of God. “If you wage
war, war will come upon you, and if you end war it is better for you,
and if you return He will return, and God is with the Believers.” Do
you not know, O you wicked learned men, that he who secedes from the
Commonwealth has slipped away from the Faith, just as a hair is drawn
out from the lump of dough? If you, by reason of your love of office
and by reason of your association with darkness, are in doubt as to
this Imàn, are you also in doubt as to the Apostleship of Mahommed, on
whom be peace and blessings, that you followed his enemies the evil
unbelievers, and have made your rulers in preference to the sons of
Islam and desire them to be victorious? Have you not heard the word of
God which says, “O ye who have believed, take not my enemy and your
enemy to be rulers, nor bestow on them your affection, and I know what
you have hidden and what you have made known; and he among you who does
this has strayed away to the wrong path.” God also says, “O ye who have
believed do not take your fathers and your brothers to be your chiefs
if they prefer unbelief to faith.” God also says, “you will not find a
people who believes in God and in the Last Day that will befriend those
who stray from God and the Prophet, even though they be their fathers,
brothers, or relations.” But you, you have taken the Christians to
be your rulers when you have no doubt as to their heathenism. Look
therefore to yourselves after these quotations; do you consider it to
be counted of the company of Believers? (_sic_). It is strange how you
frighten the people, saying the English are coming, and how you think
that the Allies will be affected by your false rumours. No, by God!
even though swarms of English and others should come, this would only
increase the faith of the Allies, and their steadfastness would grow in
the labour of the siege until God shall make you taste confusion and
destruction. Take warning by those who are like you if you are children
of intelligence. Before you the people of Obeid were longing for
reinforcements like the longing of the thirsty for water; and they too
were writing deceitful and cheering letters, more than you have done;
and, nevertheless, you have heard what befel them.
If you are content to remain as you are, then prepare for what shall
come: but if you knock at the door of repentance, peradventure it may
be opened unto you.
Peace be upon those who follow after the right way.
(Signed) ABDULLAH MAHOMMED.
19 S. 1302.
7th or 8th December, 1884.
APPENDIX CD.
Telegraphic Petition from the Ulema and officials of KARTOUM to the
Khedive.
We make bold to present our humble thanks to our Sovereign the Khedive.
The enemy drew near to KARTOUM and besieged it, and our lives were in
our throats, and we had no more patience, and words cannot describe our
miserable condition. Then the Governor-Generalship was conferred upon
H. E. GORDON Pasha, and on his arrival he bestowed all kinds of favours
and conceded all that had been demanded, and took all precautions and
brought order out of chaos. And although KARTOUM was attacked on all
four sides by musketry and cannon, the Governor-General watched day
and night; and when the Nile rose he sent out the victorious soldiers
who were victorious over the enemy, and we hope the victory will be
soon complete. KARTOUM is fortified like an impregnable rock.
We pray God to give long life to H.H. the Khedive, and to remove our
present disturbances.
Copy of the Khedive’s Iradé sent in cypher to all the Ulemas and
Teachers, and to the Cadi and all military officers and civil officials
in KARTOUM, dated September 21st, 1884.
Your telegram, dated 27th Shamal, 1301, (19th August, 1884), was
received on the first day of Dhee-l-Hijjah, 1301, (September
20th, 1884). We regret the condition you are in by reason of the
impossibility of sending you reinforcements, and help up till now on
account of circumstances. But we are very glad because you are still
safe, and the city is kept by your energy and bravery. If God will,
reinforcements will soon reach you, and you shall be rewarded. We hope
you will exercise all diligence in upholding the honour of Government.
The difficulties are being overcome and the time of relief is at hand
by the Grace of God.
APPENDIX EF.
ORGANISATION OF THE SOUDAN.
1. His Excellency, El Zubair Pasha, shall be the Governor (or Ruler)
of the Soudan; he shall have the rank of Fareek and the Osmaniah
decoration. His pay shall be £6000 per annum, _i.e._ £500 per month.
2. He shall be free to appoint and discharge the Mudirs and Wakeels,
and all other officials and employés of his own motion, and make
regulations for the employés necessary for the administrative and
military work in every region in each mudirieh and in the central
town, and for the finances and arsenal, etc.; and also regulations
fixing the taxes and all the revenues and expenses needed yearly.
3. He is permitted to give military and civil grades up to the grade of
Mir-Alâi, and shall refer to the Khedive’s cabinet in Cairo asking for
the brevets (or commissions), but above that grade he must refer to the
Khedive of Egypt.
4. The boundaries of the Soudan on the north shall be at Handak, one
of the Dongola regions: and the Soudan regions shall be by Mudirieh
as follows: Dongola: whose boundary shall be Handak as aforesaid: and
Berber and Kartoum: the extreme boundary of which shall be Donaim and
Sennaar up to Faiz-Aghlon, Godareep, Gallabat, Kassala and Suakin.
As for Massowa and Senheit, they shall not belong to the Soudan
Government. The regions of Fashoda, the Equator and Bahr-Gazelle, shall
be left (or abandoned) and the employés withdrawn from them.
5. The Egyptian Government now pays towards the Soudan expenses,
£250,000; it shall further send a like sum for two more years.
6. The customs duties taken upon goods coming up and going down by way
of Suakin shall be the same as before, and shall enter into the Soudan
revenues. Also, goods coming to Suakin while passing Suez shall be paid
at Suakin; but goods going from or coming to the Soudan by Handak, the
boundary of the Soudan, shall pay no duty and shall remain as formerly.
7. All warlike stores and all ammunition and arsenal stores, and
baggage of soldiers that shall be needed, shall be asked for from the
Egyptian Government, and shall be sent to the Soudan. The value of the
same shall not be included in the sum of money fixed to be supplied by
Egypt to the Soudan.
8. The military stores and soldiers’ baggage, and apparatus for boats
and steamers now in the Soudan, shall remain in it.
9. The boats and steamers which are in the Soudan and which are brought
up with the English shall be left for the use of the Soudan.
10. Stations for steamers must be erected from Handak to Kartoum: each
station shall have a fort and earthworks and that which is necessary
for transport; but the stations from Handak northwards shall belong to
the Egyptian Government.
11. The British troops must help in carrying on the war until the
central town is passed and the siege raised from Kartoum and Sennaar:
after which, under direction of the Ruler of the Soudan, that shall be
done which will quell the disturbance.
12. His Excellency El Zubair Pasha shall undertake to capture Mohammed
Achmed, the would-be Mahdi, and bring the captives that are with
him, both Europeans and others, for the execution of which His said
Excellency shall receive £30,000.
13. Trade in slaves shall be stopped, and the lines to be followed
herein shall be the Convention of 1877 between England and Egypt.
14. The monopoly and contract of roads in the Soudan and the Atmoor
(desert) shall be wholly denied to Hussein-Khalifa, his family, and
relations.
15. The Soudan Government must pay the losses sustained by the family
of Seyd Mahomet Osman during the disturbances.
INDEX
TO THE
JOURNAL AND APPENDICES.
A.
_Abbas_, 35;
plan for, to reach Berber, 84;
Gordon and Stewart in the, 151;
reported capture of, with Stewart, 193;
pursued by _Fascher_, 207;
capture near Dar Djumna, 214;
letter from Mahdi respecting capture of the, 221;
reported safe, 247;
reported at Dongola, 248, 250;
capture of, 272;
list of those on board the, 273;
Gordon thought descent of, a certainty, 274;
Gordon to blame for loss of, 274;
what Mahdi would find on the, 275;
Gordon cannot forget catastrophe to, 279;
under what conditions, went, 279;
treacheries weighed on departure of, 280;
number of Arabs killed by, 282;
sailing boats left with, not arrived at Debbeh, 282;
place and date of capture of, 285;
a pilot on board the, 286;
certainty of, reaching, 286;
money orders of merchants on, 302;
gun lost in the, 308;
capture of, uncertain, 359;
struck on rock, 361;
Mahdi tells of the capture of, 522.
Abdallah Mohammed Jifarah, 554.
Abdel Kader, Gordon proposes a visit to, 29.
Abdel Kader Pasha, 117, 118, 123, 124;
appointment of, 122, 123, 125;
as Minister of Interior, 291;
appointment of, as Governor-General of Soudan, 461;
arrival of, at Kartoum, 463.
Abd el Kader Ibrahim, 399, 403, 410, 430, 433, 440.
Abdel Kadi, Arabic name of Slatin Bey, 24.
Abderrahhman en Najoomi, 404, 432, 440.
Abdoul Hamid, 190.
Abdullah, Emir, 531;
testimony of, as to Mahdi, 533.
Abdullah Waled Jubira, 129.
Abou Gugliz, and Waled a Goun, 13;
the Mahdi’s spiritual adviser, 24;
begs Gordon to become a Mussulman, 186, 447.
Abou Hamed, expedition advance guard at, 192;
Arabs and gun at, 207, 249;
Stewart captured below, 280;
distance of, from Merowé, 285.
Abou Haraz, defeat of rebels at, 463; 512.
Abou Klea to Metemma, time to get from, 261.
Abou Sitti, 512.
Abu Kerjah, 429, 433, 434.
Abut, repulse of rebels at, 472;
advance on, 474.
Abu-zed, seizure of the ford of, 489.
Abyssinia, treaty between Her Majesty’s Government and, 214;
treaty with, grievance of Gordon as to, 306;
no news in, of Gordon, 517.
Abyssinians, repulse of, at Keran, 337.
Achmet-eff-Awaan, 131;
suspected of incendiarism, 133;
preaches for Mahdi, 133, 134.
Afghanistan, kind of warfare to use in defence of, 90.
Afghans, treachery of, 232.
Ahhmed Bek Ali Jallab, 424.
Ahhmed el Huda, 434, 439.
Ahmed el Mustapha, 450.
Al-ed-Deen, proclamation of, 487.
Al-ed-den and Suleiman, arrival of pashas, 485.
Alexandria, the flight from, 60.
Ali-el-Khowas, 417.
Ali Mohammed Abou Saad Esshentrawi al Abadi, 508.
Ali Othman, 511.
Ambukol, reported advance of troops on, 66;
distance of steamers from, 110.
Ambukol to Metemma a better course, 257;
map by railway engineers, 257, 258;
station forts should be along line from, 257;
Gordon’s scheme for advance from, 257;
road, the road to follow, 261;
wells plentifully supplied on, 261;
no wells much on flank of, 261.
Ambukol to Nesgee, time to get from, 261.
Ammunition, resources of, 44;
amount expended, 72;
amount left, 73;
amount of, in Kartoum, 19th October, 206;
and soldiers with Mahdi when he started, 222;
amount fired at Arabs, 252;
Mahdi bringing up large quantities of, 296;
amount fired, 311, 317;
lost with Hicks, 323;
still in _Husseinyeh_, 326;
amount with Ferratch Ullah, 331;
daily expenditure of, by Ferratch Ullah, 348;
returns of, 393;
waste of, by Arabs, 393;
and guns, amount of, in Kartoum known to Mahdi, 525.
Ancient Books, no allusion in, to any Mahdi, 414.
Animals, belief in future existence of, 49.
Anti-Slavery Society and the Mahdi, 233, 337, 379.
Apostacy of Mussulmans and Christians, 15.
Arabic, Gordon ignorant of, 198.
Arabi Pasha’s private secretary, 77;
trial of, 125, 133.
Arab school children, and their schools, 7;
Gordon’s affection for, 16.
Arabs, reported scarcity of food with, 15;
ill-treatment of Greeks and other prisoners by, 16;
Greek came in from, 18;
distinction between and Rebels, 22;
attacked by steamer _Towfikia_, 30;
in camp near Giraffe, 41;
foraging party of, 41;
fight between Gordon’s men and, 47;
retreating towards White Nile, 47;
desertion from, 63;
expecting an attack, 71;
small parties of men create dismay with, 89;
attack before dawn, 89;
no quarter given by, 98;
firing on steamers, 104;
have no conscience, 105;
attack on village on White Nile by, 121;
badly off for water, 125;
means of forcing to retreat, 126;
to be well defeated, 126;
amount of ammunition of, 129;
average daily number of deserters from, 134;
defeat of, 136;
presence of Gordon exasperating to, 152;
going towards Giraffe, 153;
have captured gun of Katarif, 166;
prevent desertions to Gordon, 171;
meditate coming to old Dem, 174;
perplexed, 186;
policy in not answering fire of, 187;
fighting force of, 187;
Sakkeyer, meditate raid, 192;
policy in letting people go to, 198;
have not occupied Halfeyeh, 201;
few only at Faki Mustapha, 201;
Gordon does not like killing, 203;
capture of two boats of Stewart’s expedition by, 205;
officials, hedging with the, 208;
death among, from dysentery, 221;
number of, with Mahdi when he started, 222;
and mirrors, 222;
telegraph cut at Bourré by, 222;
either eating, praying, sleeping, or sick, 223;
have divided their camp, 224;
take rifles from regulars, 224;
ferry across White Nile by, 225;
best place of attacking, 230;
none in arms between Wad-el-Medinet and Sennaar, 231;
should not be helped when wounded, 232;
belief of, 232;
leaders of, prime movers, 232;
meditate
attack on Omdurman, 244;
passing Blue Nile at Giraffe, 244;
ordered by Mahdi to congregate at Kartoum, 246;
reconnoitring party of, in ruins of Omdurman, 246;
reported removal of captured money by, 247;
at Shoboloha, 247;
positions of, 249;
amount of rounds of ammunition fired at, 252;
capture of three, by the Baggaras, 255;
force of, towards north, 258;
driven back to Giraffe, 258;
itinerary of, 261;
cannot assemble on banks from Ambukol to Metemma, 261;
have given no peace for one hundred and thirty-three days, 261;
camel transport depends on temper of, 262;
doubt holiness of Mahdi, 264;
continue to desert Mahdi, 268;
firing on, forbidden, 270;
presence of steamers among, 279;
number of, killed by _Abbas_, 282;
party of, at Sennaar, 282;
Stewart’s feeling as to the, 286;
have found out weak point, 301;
unconcerned as to advance of expedition, 303;
want to fight direct, 306;
lost heavily at Bourré, 306;
reconnoitring party feared, 311;
at Goba, 313;
confidence of, 313;
do not assist one another, 317;
in ditch at Omdurman, 320;
firing on lines at Bourré, 321;
coming across to Goba, 321;
declare to enter town, 322;
firing at Moggrim fort, 324;
ferry of, across White Nile, 324;
may run away, but not probable, 326;
futility of firing of, 327;
capture of man and letters by, 328;
bad firing of, 330;
at Giraffe and El foun, 334;
keep black troops on short rations, 334;
fire from Bourré, White Nile, and Omdurman, 336;
settled down in old by dem, 341;
Kartoum hemmed in by, 343;
made a pyramid of skulls from Hicks’s army, 344;
repulsed three times by expedition, 347;
distance of from city, 351;
collected at Halfeyeh, 354;
scarcity of, at Omdurman, 355;
retreat of, 356, 357;
and capture of _Husseinyeh_, 357;
at Tuti, 357;
fire on _Ismailia_, by, 358;
and Shendy, 359;
want of ammunition by, 362;
strength of on north side, 364;
and the bombardment of Palace, 366;
“Personality” of battery of, 366, 370;
and battery of Goba, 368;
fire on Palace, 369;
mishap to gun of, 370;
at Goba, 370;
another battle with, 375;
one of the, throwing dust in the air, 376;
shelling Palace, 378;
battles with, 381;
will be dispersed by troops, 382;
at Goba “silent”, 387;
innocuous, 388;
on bank of Blue Nile, 388;
short of ammunition, 391;
European directing guns of, 392;
their waste of ammunition, 393;
fire on Palace slackened, 395;
daring and recklessness of, 445;
appeal to loyalty of, 468;
disaffection among Kababish, 480.
Armageddon, 173.
Arms, amount of, in Kartoum, 19th Oct., 206.
Army, Her Majesty’s, in the desert, 168, 169.
Arrests by Gordon, 188;
more, 192;
perplexed about, 194, 195;
more arrests, 195;
public opinion not dissatisfied with, 197.
Artillery not needed in Soudan, 83;
fire, Gordon on, 383.
Ata Aga, 455.
Atbara Valley, party moving down, 207.
Attack, time to, is the dawn, 89.
Austrian Consul, 199;
telegram from, to Gordon, 546.
Awaan, Arabi’s clerk, 140;
statement of, 193;
secretary of Arabi, 250;
in prison, 250.
Azotus, 143.
B.
Bab Bekr el Mek, 442.
Backsheesh to troops, 343.
Baggaras, the capture of three Arabs by, 255;
Arabs, desertion of, 282.
Bahr Gazelle and Equator garrisons, 85, 235;
and Mahdi, 380;
in possession of Mahdi, 530.
Bairam, 115.
Baird, Mr., 54.
Baker, Tokar and, business, 162;
Commander, has best opera glasses, 265;
Sir S., letters received by Gordon from, 274;
news from, 283;
and Kitchener, 360;
auxiliary force under, 338;
Sir Samuel, 110.
Balaklava, price of cheese at, 224.
Band fired on by Arabs, 383.
Bara, defeat of rebels at, 465;
state of the garrison of, 471;
surrender of, 481.
Baring, 55;
and troops for Berber, 57;
offended Cuzzi, 57, 147, 150;
and telegrams from Gordon, 165;
would not send troops to Berber, 227;
amount authorised by, to Gordon, 242;
would never laugh, 306;
money promised to Gordon by, 308;
bumping up to Kartoum, 360, 361, 362;
to Egerton, 367;
at Metemma, 367;
without Firman from Towfik, 368;
subordinate to Towfik, 371;
and Gordon, 373;
and Austrian Consul’s telegram, 546.
Barère, 338.
Bashi Bazouks, of little use, 87;
Arab sufferings at hands of, 90;
for Berber, 116;
robbers, 116;
problem what to do with, 314;
outcry for rations by, 345.
Bear-baiting garden, back again in, 171.
Bedouins, the way to deal with, 87.
Believers, true, 419.
Beloochees and Sikhs, 189.
Berber, captured steamers at, 14;
betrayal of, by Cuzzi, 22;
Arabs aware of expedition to, 22;
mentioned, 25;
miserable defence of, 35;
desired surrender of, by Gordon, 36;
could have been saved by Zubair, 46;
Cuzzi, 57;
return of _Saphia_ and _Mansowrah_ from, 72;
fifty nuggars at, 73;
arranging attack on, 76;
plan for capture of, 83;
plan for reaching, 84;
soldiers for, on arrival of British at, 116;
occupied, 136;
arrival of Turks at Berber, 137;
and Baker, 162;
known to have fallen in March, 165;
troops advanced towards, 207;
three distinct parties moving on, 207;
route to Suakin from, 225-227;
Graham willing to send men to, 227;
to Dar Djumna from, and back on camel in one day, 247, 248;
must be captured by expeditionary force, 248, 249;
a detachment from Metemma should be sent to Berber, 257;
expedition ought to have captured, 260;
Stewart escorted past, 280;
fell through Zubair not being with Gordon, 301;
caravan with money from, 347;
reported taken, 350;
four steamers reported at, 351;
money at, taken to Mahdi, 359;
reported surrender of, 385, 387.
Berzate Bey, his death a misfortune, 253.
Biscuit, large amount stolen, 270;
and dhoora in magazine, 271;
amount of, stolen in a year, 314;
worth of stolen, 315;
given to the poor, 354.
Bizemont, M. de, 111.
Black regulars, Gordon’s affection for, 295.
Black soldiers, the equanimity of, 99.
Blanc, M. le, 111.
Blockade, a second, 166;
of Kartoum, ninth month of, 304;
greatest battle of second, 317.
Blotting paper, Journal written on, 249.
Blue Nile, Arabs at, 94;
operation on, 231;
Arabs driven off right bank of, by steamers, 301.
Blunt, Wilfrid, 133, 195.
Boatman from Berber, 247;
a liar, 255.
Boats, two abandoned and captured, 247.
Bogie, hopes the Mahdi will prove a, 197.
Bondholders of Egypt, 235.
_Bordeen_ struck, 105, 106, 108;
drove back horsemen on Blue Nile, 121;
up Blue Nile, 130, 146, 152;
ordered to White Nile, 157;
for Halfeyeh, 170;
down the river robbing, 174;
back from Shoboloha, 176;
ordered to attack Arabs, 184;
cavalry sortie from, 190;
below Kerowé, 197;
up the White Nile, 202, 203;
for Shendy, 206;
post came in from, 272;
left for Metemma, 280;
and news of Hicks’s defeat, 348;
arrival of, 358;
protection of, 365;
sent down, 371;
struck by shells, 385, 387, 395;
to bring Journal, 394.
Boulak Basha, 268.
Bourré mentioned, 24;
foraging party at, 73;
accounts from, 95;
sends out men, 204;
major wounded at, dead, 218;
telegraph cut at, 222;
no sentries at, or North Fort, 222;
Arabs in front of their old fort at, 268;
Arabs lost heavily at, 306;
Arab loss at, 312;
Arabs firing on lines at, 321;
firing on, 325, 332, 339, 349, 362;
small battle at, 382;
mines at, 391;
heavy loss of Arabs at, 394.
British forces, Gordon view as to, 83;
division of, 84;
only one hundred and fifty miles from steamers, 156.
Brussels, Gordon and, 354.
Buglers, 383.
Buller, let him have full swing, 90;
fighting force probably under, 128.
C.
Cairo, telegram to, 71;
saved us, 76;
general discharge of, _débris_, 204;
time as to advance of troops from, 260;
Turkish Bashi Bazouks for cowardice, 267;
braggarts, 267;
and the gentlemen who rule, 269;
Stewart told to go on to, 287;
Mahdi and information from, 296;
and money orders, 343;
reinforcements demanded from, 407;
amount of money to come from, for war, 493.
Cadi released, 272.
Calamatino, George, 402;
a traitor, 404;
called El Jaber, 406;
urges Gordon to see him, 409;
and Europeans, 409.
Cambyses, 175.
Camel transport depends on temper of Arabs, 262.
Campaign, unprofitable, 239.
Caravans, supposed to bring money from Berber, 347;
three, from north to Mahomet Achmet’s camp, 383.
Cardwell, Lord, 189.
Cassim el Mousse, 38;
asked to kill Gordon, 208;
impression of seal sent to, 361, 420;
brother of, 442.
Cavalry sent towards Giraffe, 203;
out from North Fort towards Halfeyeh, 204.
_Chabeen_ in dry dock, 157.
Cherif, resignation of, prohibited Egypt from helping herself, 341.
Chermside, 92.
China and France come to terms, 283.
Chinese, Gordon’s opinion of the, 25;
for English expeditions, 189;
contempt of, for Sepoy, 189.
Chivalry, borrow, if you have it not, 311.
Christian, Gordon regrets being a, _note_, 15;
true of the religion of Islam, 30.
Cipher-books taken by Stewart, 273;
why Gordon sent down the, 275.
Circassian soldiers not wanted, 209.
Circumcision, 195.
Club bores and Gordon, 361.
Cock turkey, 385.
Coetlogon, Colonel, opinion of, as to rebels, 86.
Colours flying, to go down with, 333.
Column, strong, no use in Soudan, 89.
Colvin, Sir Auckland, held responsible for Soudan disasters, 21;
the Co. are Malet and, 42;
class, and humbugs, 224.
Composing draughts, 179, 180.
Congo, Gordon’s intention of retiring to, 112.
Conscience, acted according to, 271;
and ability, acted according to, 271.
Court of Inquiry and Stewart, Power, and Herbin, 274.
Cowardice, the troops to back for, 267.
Cows, two, come into Omdurman Fort, 265;
seven, came in, 272;
Arabs drive, in, supposed to explode mines, 302;
number captured at Omdurman, 305, 309.
Cranes, 96.
Crimea, considered mean to bob in, 376.
Cunnynghame, 60.
Cuzzi, came into lines, 8;
questioned as to Mahdi, 8;
escort sent to try to capture, 15;
left for Berber, 21;
suspected as emissary of Mahdi, 22;
presents received by, from Mahdi, 23;
Gordon regrets his gift to, 24;
his Arabic name, Mahomet Yusuf, 24;
Baring and, 57;
revenge of, 57; 140;
sure that, is a traitor, 210;
Mahdi speaks of, 524.
D.
Dar Djumna, Cataract, Stewart captured at, 193;
treachery of a sheikh at, 247;
from Berber to, and back on camel in one day, 247;
expeditionary force at, 247;
position of, 247.
Dar el Gharb, 433, 435.
Darfur, 235;
events in, 465;
operations in, 495.
Deaths, Gordon’s returns of, and wounded, 351.
Debbeh, eight days from Kartoum, 156;
expeditionary force reported at, 255;
distance from to Kartoum, 255;
unlikely that rumours did not reach, 260.
_Débris_, Cairo, 205.
Decisions to be taken in event of rapid retreat, 298.
Defeat, Gordon fears, 20.
Delusions, feeding on, for months, 312.
Dem, explanation of defeat on the, 12.
Dervishes, two came in with Mahdi’s letter, 9;
letters sent back by them, 9;
the procession of the five, 96;
bring letter from Mahdi, 270;
fanaticism of, 338;
allies, 402.
Desert, the way to cross the, _en masse_, 87;
bitter cold in the, 261.
Deserters and Arabs, 335.
Despatches deciphered by Mahdi, 520.
Destiny, no use fighting against, 344.
Dhoora, _i.e._ forage, 249;
trying to be petitioned for, 269.
Dictator needed for Soudan, 240.
Dilke, Sir Charles, held responsible for Soudan disasters, 21; 59.
Dinner parties, Gordon and, 228.
Diplomatists, no love for, 42;
Gordon hates our, 223.
Diplomatic and military service, 234.
Djaalen, country, Stewart in, 443;
gone over to the Arabs, 445.
Doctors, Gordon against, 179, 180.
Document, only original, kept by Gordon, 309.
Don Luigi, his fidelity, 24.
Dongola, tales of troops at, 38;
no evidence of troops at, 39;
reported arrival of troops at, 46;
messengers from, 69;
letter from Mudir, 70;
telegram from Mudir of, 75;
spies started for, 76;
scheme for having open route to, 85;
and medical officers, 98;
Gordon on Wolseley’s advance from, 113;
Mudir of, as Governor-General, 124;
people of, would be hostile if evacuated, 243;
the desert of, coldest of all deserts, 261;
Nutzer Pasha and Egyptians should not be sent lower than, 262;
Mudir of, his account of Stewart’s landing, _note_, 281;
certainty as to _Abbas_ reaching, 286;
little effect of our preparation at, 305;
blockade of, 428;
Stewart has no certain news of, 444;
note to Mudir of, from Gordon, 539.
Dud Benga and Slatin Bey, 453.
Duem, defeat of rebels near, 467.
E.
Earle to extricate garrisons, 93, 98.
Earthquake, 21;
Gordon and an, 429, 440.
Edrees, 167.
Egypt, Palestine, and meditated invasion of, by Mahdi, 44;
our action in, and the garrisons, 93;
and Gladstone in 1878, 104;
General Simmons’s views on, 130;
responsible for pensions, 137;
Kassala not ceded by, 222;
and the bondholders, 235;
cannot govern Soudan, 238;
fiction that Egyptian Government governs, 306;
Government refused to help, as to Soudan, 341;
Government refused to let, help herself, 341;
Government refused to allow any other Power to help, 341;
debt on, 373;
reinforcements from, 472.
Egyptian soldier, contempt for, 60;
soldier, apology for abusing, 63;
mountain guns, usefulness of, 109;
soldiers, Gordon’s consideration for, 112;
soldiers, climate that suits, 158;
administrations, inefficiency of, 160;
soldiers not wanted in Kartoum, 205;
their pay, 205;
no troops more contemptible than, 209;
territory, no part to be ceded except by permission of Porte, 221;
from steamers should not be sent further than Dongola, 262;
Government and bugle calls, 383;
army, tactics of, 498;
annihilation of, troops, 501.
Egerton, his telegram from Lord Granville, 39;
pomp of telegram of, 41;
tone of telegram from, grates, 42;
contract arrangement of, 45;
and Government telegram, 58;
telegram from, 69;
affection for, 73;
cipher telegram of, 74;
is a statistician, 77; 130;
telegrams of, undecipherable, 172;
last telegram from, 288.
El Duem, Stewart halted at, 443.
El-foun, ammunition captured by Arabs at, 9;
situation desparate after defeat at, 287.
El Heza, Stewart at, 442.
El Huda, 428.
Elias Pasha and Slatin, with Mahdi, 170.
El Jaber, another name of Calamatino, 406; 433.
“El Jaoakeet w’el Jowahir”, 417.
El Obeyed, man from, 40;
the town and the Sheikh, confusion of, 59;
at Kassala, 78;
assault of, 467;
state of the garrison of, 471;
siege of, 471;
surrender of, 482.
El Sayet Eltahen, 448.
El Sheddarah, 229, 244.
Emin Bey, reported capture of, 221.
Emirs with Mahdi, 401.
Emissary, Gordon will not obey, 307.
England, Gordon will never return to, 112;
made by adventurers, 192;
and terms for soldiers, 197.
English, prisoners at Assouan, 193;
troops passed Abou Hamed, 205;
two days distant from Berber, 206;
General wants camels in great haste, 262;
wants to go in one body, 262;
troops and Merowé, 438.
Equator and Bahr Gazelle garrisons, 85;
garrison of, 117;
question as to garrison of, 14, 22, 235.
Esneh, importance of, on the Nile, 44.
European directing fire of Mahdi’s gun, 302;
prisoners with Mahdi and Slatin, 202;
officers, names of those that perished with Hicks, 507.
Europeans have nothing to do with apostate in Arab camp, 6;
of Kordofan deserve their fate, 51;
information about, 403.
Evacuate, to, prestige vanishes, 86.
Evacuation of Soudan, solution of, 37;
and bolting out, distinction between, 79;
Gordon indifferent to, 113;
policy, carrying out of the, 204.
Ex-Khedive, view of governing Soudan, 52, 53, _note_.
Expedition will encounter no enemy, 88;
to save national honour, 93;
relief No. 1, 93;
relief No. 2, 93;
waste of money and life in, 149, 151;
unremunerative, 138;
Gordon not cause of, 139;
to Tokar, 163;
ought to have captured Berber, 260;
knew nothing of, when _Abbas_ left, 225;
Arabs unconcerned as to advance of the, 303;
expected by this time, 311;
rumour of advance of, 312.
Expeditionary force comes for honour of England, 58;
but too late, 191;
useless to retake Kartoum, 191;
Gordon on movements of, 326;
impossible to avoid Arabs, 326;
question as to arrival of, 346;
reported near Berber, 347;
Arabs repulsed three times by, 347;
left Merowé for Berber, 349;
and Gordon’s steamer, 351;
doubtful arrival of, before fall of Kartoum, 352;
and the reported capture of Berber, 354, 365;
reported at Metemma, 355;
no news of, in Waled a Goun’s camp, 356;
at Ambukol, 358;
advancing in three parties, 359;
must soon arrive to save Kartoum, 368;
question as to arrival of, 368;
as allies of Towfik, 373;
to relieve British subjects, 378;
to give boats and steamers, &c., to Zubair, 380;
reported capture of Berber by, 386;
reported as coming by land, 387;
rumoured near, 391;
reported advance towards Berber, 392;
reported at El Damer, 393;
only 100 men of required by Gordon, 394;
must not be withdrawn if Kartoum falls, 394;
only fifty of, sufficient, 394;
Gordon’s tactics if in command of, 395;
if, does not arrive in ten days, Kartoum may fall, 395.
Expeditions to Sennaar and Equator, trouble of, 86.
Ezekiel cited as to Soudan, 11.
F.
Faith, not a small thing to deny our, 5;
if Christian, is a myth, throw it off, 6;
mean to throw it off to save one’s life, 6.
Faithless man, should not denounce, 100.
Fakeers and money at Berber, 424.
Faki Mustapha, report that he wishes to join Government, 4;
General Gordon bids him wait events, 4;
captured soldier come in from, 15;
letter from, 38;
commotion through letter of, 42;
desires a letter, 68;
camp of, six flags at, 195, 196;
few Arabs at, 201;
looting dem of, 241;
camp of, alongside of Mahdi’s, 295; 420.
Fakirs and booty, 535.
False Prophet, appearance of the, 456.
Fanatics and robbers, both King John and Mahdi are, 216.
Fanaticism, decline of, 18.
_Fascher_, an Arab steamer, 205, 206;
captured by Arabs, _note_ 35, 250, 443.
Fashoda, troops reported at, 46;
reinforcements for, 465.
Fate, belief in, 271.
Fatmah, 447.
Fear, contagion of, 20.
Fellaheen, uncleanliness of, 17;
contemptible as soldiers, 60;
for Berber, 115;
acted in interests of, 146, 233;
Gordon makes a present of the, 204;
to be backed for cowardice, 267.
Ferratch Pasha, a Ferik, 179;
made a Miralli, 192;
and releasing of prisoners, 200;
and news to the Arabs, 208;
salary of, 244; 249, 253;
reported safe, 325;
letter from, 331;
dares not go out, 345, 348, 349;
reports all right, 355, 356, 357;
always the gentleman, 342, 350;
vigour of, 394.
Ferratch Pasha el Zeeb, letter to, 451.
Ferratch Ullah Bey, telegram from
Gordon to, 536.
Fiction, that Egyptian Government
governs Egypt, 306;
as to Abyssinian treaty, 306.
Finance question and the Rothschilds, 224.
Firman of Towfik, 285, 309;
Gordon’s resolve in absence of, 368, 372.
Fleet, progress decided by slowest vessel, 286.
Floyer, notes from, 70;
telegram of, 92;
and telegraph department, 170, 171, 249.
Food question, 391.
Forage, _i.e._ Dhoora, 249.
Foraging parties sent out, 72.
Force, only enemy, would meet from Debbeh to Merowé, 257.
Forces, division of, according to Gordon’s plans, 126;
concentration of, completed, 196.
Foreign Office and cipher books, 273;
and Gordon, 376.
Forts, numbers required for, from Ambukol to Metemma, 256.
Fowler’s railway to Shendy, and Nile route, 262.
France and Egypt, 138, 139, 364.
Free will, Gordon likes, 198.
French Consul-General, cipher of with Mahdi, 275.
French and Egypt, 310.
Frenchman not with the Mahdi, 263.
Friday, unreasonable to work on, 350.
Funds in Treasury, 117.
Future, meditations as to the, 47.
G.
Gabra wells, 87.
Gakdul to Abou Klea, time to get from, 261.
Garrisons, obstacle to abandonment of Soudan, 55;
distance to abandon, 56;
time for bringing down, 85;
expedition to relieve the, 93;
Earle sent to relieve, 93;
relief of from outside, 102;
mean to leave the, 122;
extrication of, 123;
abandonment of, 125;
and government, 151;
Gordon refuses to abandon, 113;
Gordon’s views as to relief of, 114;
what the relief of, really amounts to, 258.
Gebel Nubar, fighting in the, 178.
Genesis cited, 14, 50.
Gessi, 94, 153;
men like, wanted, 209.
Gibraltar and Malta weak, 240.
Giraffe, Arabs going towards, 153;
cavalry out towards, 203;
Arabs passing Blue Nile at, 244; 246;
Arabs at, 249;
position of, 249;
Arabs gone back to, 258.
Gitana, Mahdi’s camp opposite, 170.
Gladstone view in 1878 of occupation of Egypt, 104;
a rival to, in shirt collars, 202.
Glory of God, question as to Gordon staying for, 245.
Goba, inclined to put Shaggyeh at, 183;
and Hogali pulled down by Shaggyeh, 201;
destroyed, 280;
Arabs coming across to, 321;
at, 322;
Arabs firing from, 345;
breastwork towards, 350.
God of Muslims our God, 19;
final revelation of, to Mahomed, 410.
Goorkas, 189.
Gordon, General, his horse captured by Arabs at El foun, 5;
regrets being a Christian, _note_, 15;
affection for Arab children, 16;
interview with Ulemas, 18;
decline of fanaticism, 18;
defends the Koran, 19;
compares Muslims and Christians, 19;
fears defeat, 20;
contagion of fear, 20;
answers Waled a Goun, 20;
charges against Colvin, Malet and Dilke by, 21;
charge against _Times_ correspondent, 22;
suspects Cuzzi, 22, 24;
his opinion of the Chinese, 25;
his views on prophecy, 25;
fear of, in the Soudan, 27;
his freedom from blood-guiltiness, 27;
doubts whether or not to blow up Palace at Kartoum, 31;
no love for diplomatists, 42;
envy of Mahdi, 45;
his meditations as to the future, 47;
promises to do
his best in sending down soldiers, 51;
and means to govern Soudan, 52;
object of the mission of, 55;
and abandonment of garrisons, 56;
the mission of, a mutual affair, 56;
why, did not escape, 56;
would not have left Soudan, 57;
never asked for an expedition, 57;
charged by Baring with indiscretion, 57;
intentions
of, on arrival of expedition, 58;
grateful for people’s prayers, 58;
reasons for staying, 59;
owns to being insubordinate, 59;
and Dilke, 59;
and his superiors, 60;
apologises for abusing Egyptian soldiers, 63;
and the Victoria Cross, 64, 65;
and the Shaggyeh, 68;
affection for Egerton, 73;
preparing to clear out of place, 77;
responsible for murder of the pashas, 78;
the view of, as to British forces, 85;
will keep Equator from Zubair, 87;
extract from Herodotus by, 89;
belief of, that he would not perish, 90;
only the messengers of, bring news, 91;
and the spies, 92;
complains of no information from the Ministers in Cairo, 92;
declines imputation of expedition to relieve him, 93;
relief expedition No. 1, 93;
logic of, 93;
not the rescued lamb, 93;
admiration of, for Schiller, 96;
looks forward to the advent of Navy, 97;
love of study of mankind, 100; on liars, 100;
on denouncing a faithless man, 100;
and Psalmist on liars, 101;
his fairness to fellow man, 102;
telegram from British agent and Nubar Pasha, 102;
telegram to Baring, 103;
on slavery, 104;
on admiration of Navy, 105;
his people not cowards, 105;
safety during battle, 106;
on troubles of life, 108;
statement as to his success or not, 110;
and the Government, 110;
sends two first journals by steamers, 111;
hopes Egyptian soldiers will be well treated, 112;
determined not to return to England, 112;
views on abandoning garrisons, 113;
and Wolseley, 113;
indifferent to evacuation, 113;
egotistical remarks, 113;
on relief of garrisons, 114;
on solution of Soudan problem, 117;
as “rescued lamb”, 118;
his mission, 118;
reasons for remaining, 122;
honour, 122;
not to be forced, 122;
sent up by Government, 124;
Government must not say, was replaced, 125;
thinks Soudan a useless country, 125;
his plans if in chief command, 125;
division of forces, 125;
ideas as to command of forces, 128;
a nuisance and bore, 130;
on Naval Powers in Mediterranean, 131;
and his spies, 134;
not the cause of expedition, 139;
and son of Saleh Pasha, 141;
stung by scorpion, 143;
sincerely wishes to be out of place, 151;
exonerates Government from responsibility as to himself, 152;
presence of, exasperating to Arabs, 152;
complaint of, against Intelligence Department, 154;
judges by the eye, 155;
and an European war, 163;
queries put by, 164;
ideas of, on coming out, 164;
telegrams to Baring, 165;
gives people written permission to go to Arabs, 171;
thinks Mahdi will negotiate, 172;
had clear orders from Government, 172;
against doctors, 179;
desires information as to number of communications sent him, 186;
Abou Gugliz begs, to be a Mussulman, 186;
a general arrest by, 187, 188;
hates Sepoys and admiration of Chinese, 189;
and India, 189;
makes more arrests, 192;
perplexed as to arrests, 194, 196;
ignorant of Arabic language and Arab customs, 198;
will take Slatin to Congo, 200;
will have nothing to do with Slatin’s coming, 202;
does not like killing Arabs, 203;
ships, according to, cannot stand land batteries, 204;
Cassim el Mousse asked to kill, 208;
put out at the loss of the two boats, 209;
does not want Egyptians, Turks, or Circassians, 209;
prepared to clear out, 210;
sure of Cuzzi being a traitor, 210;
emphatic protest against Egyptians, &c., by, 210;
letter from King John to, 214;
anxious about the _Abbas_, 215;
shrewd idea of how affair will end, 215;
and Graham’s dispatch, 216;
notes on Abyssinia, 216;
amusing to, to see what shifts Government have been put to, 219;
sure of no Abyssinian army in Soudan, 219;
contention of, as to Kassala, &c., 220;
has letter from Mahdi, 221;
often in a bad temper, 223;
our diplomatists hated by, 225;
calculation of, as to arrival of troops, 225;
latest time given by, for arrival of troops, 227;
and Baring concerning troops for Berber, 228;
rejoices at the thought of never seeing Great Britain again, 228;
and dinner-parties, 228;
best plan of attacking Arabs, 230;
on belief of Arabs, 232;
problem of evacuation, 236;
denies that expedition is for his relief, 236; advice of, 236;
emphatic statement as to Sennaar, 237;
rapid retreat question, 237;
anxious to resign post of Governor-General, 238;
and subordinate position, 238;
says that Soudan is useless to us, 238;
peculiar view not considered, 239;
can see no other course but to go on, 243;
and the salary of Ferratch Pasha, 244;
the reasons why he urged relief of people, 244;
amused at the old state of affairs returning, 245;
letter to Sennaar, 246;
hopes no Egyptian soldiers, officers, or pashas will be sent again
to Kartoum, 246;
opinion of expeditionary force up Nile to Berber, 248;
“secure yourself on one flank”, 249;
reiterates earnest prayer that Egyptians be not sent back, 249;
hopes to have another sister steamer to _Abbas_, 250;
estimation of Awaan, 250;
his management of forces and finance, 252;
thanks God for protection, 253;
contemplates position after misfortunes, 253;
“covering” force _viâ_ Nile when rising, not falling, 255;
scheme by, for reaching Ambukol and Metemma, 257;
_morale_ of men with, 258;
lament of, as to the Shaggyeh, 259;
recommends immediate disbandment of Shaggyeh on arrival of troops,
259;
no danger anticipated by, for force to Gebil Gelif well, 261;
and the recall of Wolseley, 263;
regrets the death of the living skeleton, 264;
and his telescope, 265;
restores grant of monopoly of commerce to family of Hussein Pasha
Khalifa, 265;
felt insecurity respecting the lines, 266;
and the merchants, 269;
passed a great part of his time on roof of Palace, 269;
hates coercive measures, 270;
belief in things being ordained, 271;
would be an angel if not rabid with Government, 271;
Stewart, Power, and Herbin, left in _Abbas_ without order from, 274;
what, wrote to Stewart concerning his going, 274;
receives private letter from Stanley, 274;
looked upon descent of _Abbas_ as a certainty, 274;
thought relief of Kartoum most uncertain, 274;
question as to, being to blame for loss of _Abbas_, 275;
letter of, that accompanied sixth journal, 278;
defence for departure of _Abbas_, 279;
gives Stewart letter on leaving Kartoum, 280;
convinced Stewart was captured by treachery, 281;
not comfortable since Stewart left, 281;
made up of suspicion, 281;
his account of landing of Stewart, 281;
wishes for examination as to deaths of Stewart, Power, and Herbin,
282;
captures all European telegrams, 284;
defence of, at letting Stewart go, 287;
physically impossible for, to go, 287;
declined to order Stewart, 287;
and contents of newspaper, 290;
Relief Expedition, 292;
and addition to enemies, 293;
and extracts from newspapers, 294;
affection for black regulars, 295;
rights of, as Governor-General, 297;
and decisions as to rapid retreat, 298;
defect laboured under by, 299;
cost of Soudan business to, 304;
and Stewart’s Journal, 305;
argument by, as to right of sending expedition, 305;
grievances of, 306;
reasoning of people if left, 307;
emphatic declaration of, to stay in Kartoum, 307;
money promised to, by Baring, 308;
telegrams given by, from memory, 310;
dares not say that death of Stewart and Power is an evil, 310;
money in hand, 316;
advocates quick punishment, 316;
war a horrid nuisance according to, 318;
and _Husseinyeh_, 318;
blames telegraph clerk, 320;
calculates Arab ammunition, 323;
unfortunate with little steamers, 324;
left to last extremity, 324;
goes to Mogrim, 329;
and fellaheen, 332;
visits hospital, 333;
his indifference as to his fate, 333;
and new steamer, 333;
visits the _Husseinyeh_, 335;
and his officers of _Husseinyeh_, 336;
sketches made of, 338;
complains of a British Minister, 339;
has commanded cowardly troops more often than other men, 339;
will not retreat shabbily, 340;
why has been kept on alert, 342;
hemmed in by Arabs, 343;
personally responsible for paper money notes, 343;
and account of Hicks’s defeat, 344;
and Bashi Bazouks, 345;
urges disbandment of Bashi Bazouks, 346;
no person on whom to rely, 349;
weary of life, 350;
Nutzer Bey disobeys order of, 351;
anxiety of, for Omdurman fort, 351;
his returns of killed and wounded, 351;
and his resignation, 352;
and his actions on arrival of Expedition, 353;
and the evacuation of Soudan, 353;
receives letter from Government, 360;
receives civil word only from Kitchener, 360;
Wolseley, Wood, and Baring as club bores, 361;
and Towfik’s telegram, 362;
two Ulemas imprisoned by, 364;
anxiety for steamers, 365;
safe in Palace, 366;
and Chinese experience, 367;
and the Governor Generalship, 368;
on Firman from Towfik, 369;
able to distinguish firing, 369;
and Towfik’s arrangement of officials, 372;
wishes to leave, 372;
wants to leave house before it falls, 373;
anxious to understand telegrams, 373;
on the idea of the Government, 374;
nearly loses his eyes, 375;
and bobbing at shots, 376;
quite accustomed to Arab fire, 377;
programme of, 378;
responsible for appointment of Zubair, 379;
refusal of honours, 380;
musings of, for the future, 380;
on the retreat of Arabs, 382;
almost given up idea of saving town, 384;
distress at having wounded men, 385;
meditating attack on Arabs, 387;
receives letter from Ameer of Mahdi, 388;
answer to Ameer, 388;
called Pasha of Kartoum, 389;
would like to question Mahdi, 390;
and human glory, 390;
frets at delay, 394;
plan of, for future government of Soudan, 394;
his tactics if in command of expeditionary force, 395;
done his best for honour of country, 395;
good-bye, 395;
does not wish to see Greek, 403;
calls Calamatino a traitor, 404;
mails of, captured, 424;
proclamation from, 425;
what enabled, to win, 425;
warned by Abd el Kader Ibrahim, 430;
asked to come out and fight, 436;
sort of people with, 448;
Slatin Bey and, 519;
and the people of Sennaar, 521;
receives letter from Mahdi, 528;
telegram from, to Ferratch Ullah Bey, 536;
and Slatin, 536;
wrote his own letters, 537;
notice published by, 552;
letter from Abdullah Mahommed, 553.
Government, Gordon and the, understanding between, 56;
sale of, dhoora, 66;
Gordon owns being insubordinate to, 59;
Greek creditors and, 117;
and extrication of garrisons, 118;
and Abdel Kader Pasha, 122;
and Boer business, 122;
hostility of the, 123;
wished to be rid of Soudan business, 123;
instructions to Wolseley, 124;
action of, at Cairo, 124;
must not say Gordon was replaced, 125;
and garrisons, 134;
cannot hold Soudan, 135;
and duties in Egypt, 139;
extrication of garrisons, 146, 149;
Gordon does not question policy of, as to Soudan, 150;
should have said “Shift for yourself”, 150;
and the garrisons, 151;
indecision of, a great bore, 162;
and decision by, 164;
will not wish longer campaign, 172;
clear orders from, to Gordon, 172;
a drag on us, 191;
England not made by its, 192;
what it has to answer for, 198;
when the, will sleep in peace, 200;
treaty between Abyssinia and, 214;
can get men to do anything, 215;
policy of Her Majesty’s, asked, 218;
and treaty with King John, 220;
and the Rothschilds, 224;
and actions in the Soudan, 234;
numbers killed through policy of, 235;
and slave trade, 235;
and a rapid retreat, 237, 238;
and desertion of Kassala, 243;
and relief expedition, 254;
Arabs wish for return of the, 268;
Gordon an angel, if not rabid with, 271;
shamed into action, 287;
Stewart’s ideas as to the, 288;
Gordon and the, 289;
and treaty with King John, 291;
and Gordon relief expedition, 292;
and irresponsibility, 292;
and definite instructions, 296;
Gordon would be acting against, to leave Kartoum, 304;
Gordon and feeling towards, as to expedition, 305;
indecision of, judged, 305, 306;
Egyptian, to blame for reinforcements, 311;
refused to help Egypt as to Soudan, 341;
refused to let Egypt help herself, 341;
refused to allow any other Power to help Egypt, 341;
will not need to name a vessel after Gordon, 345;
and instructions to Expedition, 352;
and letter to Gordon, 360;
authorises Kitchener to pay Mahdi, 360;
charge of Soudan a serious business for, 363;
two courses to pursue, 363, 364;
Gordon as to idea of, 374;
and quiet of Soudan, 375;
and appointment of Zubair, 379;
blamed by English people for sending expedition, 379;
must not abandon other garrisons if Kartoum falls, 394;
does not possess hand-breadth of ground, 435.
Governor-General, Gordon anxious to resign the post of, 238;
rights of Gordon as, 297.
Graham, and his despatch, 216;
willing to send men to Berber, 227.
Grain, sale of, 167;
amount of, in Kartoum, 19th October, 206.
Granville, Earl of, and Sir E. Baring, 228.
Great Britain, Gordon rejoices at the thought of never seeing, again,
228.
Greek Consul sent to interview a Greek, 18;
return of, 20;
departure of, in abeyance, 47;
and defeat of Hicks, 348.
Greeks, for Berber, 116;
list of, on board the _Abbas_, 273;
bodyguard of, on _Abbas_, 280.
Greek creditors and Government, 117.
Grievances, three, of Gordon, 306.
Gros Rageb with English troops, 205.
Guns, number lost, on steamers, 175;
concentration of, on Arab lines, 183.
Gugliz Bey, 154, 155.
H.
Hadith, the, 415, 416, 417.
Hagili, village of, levelled, 221.
Hale’s rockets, the only decent ones, 302.
Halfeyeh, foraging party between, and Shoboloha, 69;
two hundred men sent from, 72;
deputation to prevent Gordon going to, 96;
question at, 99;
meditated attack on, 140;
telegraph cut with, 165;
telegraph to, repaired, 166;
connected fort of, by telegraph, 179;
prepared to evacuate, 180;
cost to evacuate, 184;
Arabs have not occupied, 201;
cavalry out from, 204;
if Arabs come to, escape hopeless, 245;
Arabs collected at, 354;
to clear Arabs from, 365;
only fifty of expeditionary force required at, 394.
Halim as Governor-General, 362.
Hamad, Dodao, sons of, 535.
Hamed Idreer, 448.
Hammond, Lord, a Tartar, 43.
Hansall, the Austrian Consul, disposed to join Arabs, 28;
and captives at Obeyed, 37, 197, 222;
has daily Journal, 284;
and his Journal, 389;
not answered by Slatin Bey, 519.
Harrison, Colonel, 293.
Hassan Agad, 155.
Hassan Bey and Cuzzi, 8.
Hassan el Araki, Sheikh, 417.
Hassaniyeh Arabs, revolt of, 463.
Hawks at the Palace, 36.
Heart, a man lived eleven days with bullet in, 17.
Hebrews cited, 50.
Hedjaz, revolt in, 299.
Herbin left Kartoum for Dongola, 3;
on board the _Abbas_, 273;
left of his own freewill, 274;
sent to reinforce, 252;
has daily Journal, 284;
as a martyr, 285;
agreeable and gentlemanly Frenchman, 310;
Journal of, cause of Mahdi’s advance, 389.
Herodotus, extract from, 89.
Hewitt, Admiral, treaty of, 215, 218;
King John gave a spear and shield, 219;
all twaddle, 219;
Treaty, King John and Turks to settle about, 242;
and the desertion of Kassala, 243, 290;
the falling through of, 363;
arrival of, in Abyssinia, 518.
Hicks, strength of Mahdi when he defeated, 46;
defeat, date of, 172;
defeat of, gave prestige to Mahdi, 234;
and Kartoum, 235;
anniversary of defeat of, 240;
army of, died of thirst, 241;
probable date of defeat, 250-252;
when defeat of, was known at Cairo, 311;
defeat of, not material, 344;
army of, perished from thirst, 344;
Arabs made a pyramid of skulls from army of, 244;
account of arrival of news of defeat of, 348;
and state of his army, 427;
and Slatin Bey, 453;
arrival of, at Kartoum, 486;
appointment of, to command of expedition to Kordofan, 496;
departure of from Kartoum, 502;
last despatch from, 504.
Higginbotham, C. E., 111.
History, no parallel in, as to Gordon’s treatment, 305.
Hobson’s choice, the Turk solution, 242.
Honour, better to fall with, than gain with dishonour, 6;
binding as to withdrawal of garrisons, 122.
House of Lords, 217, 233.
Hospital, number of men in, 335.
Humbugs and diplomatists, 224.
Human glory nine-tenths twaddle, 390.
Hunger, no death from, 348.
Hussein, 157; sent to reinforce, 252.
Hussein Bey, 106.
Hussein Pasha Khalifa, 76, 170;
the giving up of Berber, 263;
father of, led Egyptians into Soudan in 1823, 265;
good friends with Mahdi, 283;
great friends with Mahdi, 303, 426.
Hussein Sadik and Gordon, 520.
_Husseinyeh_ reconnoitring up White Nile, 202, 203;
went down river, 223, 250;
ordered up to drive Arabs back, 301;
aground, 315;
under fire, 318, 319, 320, 324, 327, 328;
death of captain of, 330;
stores taken off, 321;
struck by shell, 332;
the grounding of, a benefit, 332;
visit of Gordon to, 335;
sinking of, 356, 357.
I.
Ibrahim Hardar, 253.
Ibrahim Ruckdi, 154, 156;
“very ill”, 167;
deputation asking to take back, 167, 168;
will return to Cairo, 168.
Ibrahim Tongi Bey, 117.
Ibycus, the cranes of, 96.
Intelligence Department, 134;
Gordon’s complaint against, 154, 163.
Imam, Mahdi the present, 399.
Immaum, 448.
India, garrison, with Chinese and blacks, 189;
Mussulmans of, against Sepoys, 189;
not an advantage to our men, 189;
and Lord Cardwell, 189.
Insurgent forces, distribution of, 466.
Islam, definition of, 30.
Ismail Pasha, 362.
Ismail Pasha Ayoub, Momtoz Pasha and, 377;
cause of recall of, 377;
a great scamp, 377;
best administrator the Soudan has had, 378;
Minister of Interior in Dufferin’s time, 378;
came to grief as Minister of Finance, 378.
_Ismailia_ struck, 105, 106;
at Halfeyeh, 157;
sent for from Halfeyeh, 170;
below Kerowé, 197;
went down river, 223;
ordered up to drive Arabs back, 301, 302;
struck by shell, 315, 316, 318, 319, 327;
gun of, on bank of Nile, 330;
sent to reconnoitre, 356, 357;
sent down, 358;
struck by shells, 385, 387.
Issat Osman Bey, 450.
J.
Janissaries, children of Christian parents, 335.
Jantimgan Mahomed Ali, grandfather of Khedive, 551.
January, impossible to keep troops after, 48;
must see other troops by, 49.
Jeremiah, comparison drawn by Gordon, 10;
and the arrests, 195.
Jervois, Sir W., 66.
Jesus Christ, miserable from birth to death, 51.
Journal, little hopes of saving, if town falls, 394.
Journals, the two first sent by steamers, 111.
Jura Hadra, defeat of troops near, 473.
“Just too late”, 191.
K.
Kaaba, 422.
Kababish tribe, revolt of, 466.
Kalakla, Mahdi opposite, 208; 440.
Kalifa Abdulla Mahommed, letter from, 553.
Kambok, water is found at, 261.
Karam Illah, 534.
Karasah, despatch of troops to, 476;
defeat of Egyptians at, 476.
Kartoum, thankful telegram of people of, to Khedive respecting Gordon,
4;
census taken of, 8;
ammunition in, 44;
and troops at Fashoda, 47;
establishment of Government at, 134;
Debbeh, eight miles from, 156;
Mahdi take, by plunging into river, 161;
inhabitants of, killed by Sheikh el Obeyed, 166;
Mahdi intends bombarding, 178;
Gordon’s instinct as to taking of, 191;
useless to retake, 191;
once taken, matters little what is said, 191;
if falls, go quietly back, 192;
happy-go-lucky government of, 198;
two hundred and nineteenth day in, 203;
protest against returning Egyptian soldiers to, 205;
statement of troops, arms, ammunition, and grain, &c., 206;
compared to siege of Troy, 224;
and Hicks’s army, 234;
Arabs ordered to congregate at, by Mahdi, 246;
road from, to Shendy, reported clear, 247;
distance from Debbéh, 255;
detachment should be sent from Metemma to, 257;
expedition ought to have reached, on November 10th, 260;
Gordon thought relief of, most uncertain, 274;
desperate when Stewart left, 286;
Gordon rather stop at, than leave, 287;
Mahdi against attack on the lines of, 292;
Gordon on evacuation of, 297;
and fall of Sennaar and Kassala, 299;
Lord Wolseley and relief of, 304;
nine months of blockade of, 304;
Gordon not to leave for Equator until he had permission, 304;
how the people of, would reason as to Gordon leaving, 307;
emphatic statement by Gordon not to leave, 307;
expeditionary force and government of, 326;
and Sheikh el Obeyed’s men, 343;
hemmed in by Arabs, 343;
state of, a year ago, 344;
Arab gun to bar entrance to, 345;
Baring bumping up to, 360;
fired on, 371;
Gordon called Pasha of, 389;
must fall in ten days, 394;
what enabled Gordon to win, 425;
defences of, 429;
food and, 429;
proclamation of state of siege at, 466;
construction of a canal south of, 471;
arrival of Stewart at, 471;
withdrawal of army to, 492;
departure of army from, 497;
letter from Mitzakis to Greek Consul in, 517;
number of soldiers coming to relieve, 518;
Gordon on abandonment of, 552;
petition from Ulema and officials of, to Khedive, 556.
_Kartoumiah_, 451.
Kassala must be relieved, 48;
tiradeagainst cession of, 215;
Egypt could not cede, 222;
desertion of, and Hewitt Treaty, 243;
information should have been sent to, _viâ_ Massowah, 271;
no news from, 338;
still holding out, 392.
Katarif and Kassala, means of opening route to, 231.
Kazghil, battle of, 506.
“Keshef el Ghummah”, 416.a
Khalifas and Arabs want to fight direct, 306.
Khalif Abdallah Ben, 534.
Khedival authority, none to have charge of steamers, 209.
Khedive, bakshesh for, 444;
letter from, to Gordon, 550;
petition from officials of Kartoum, 556.
King of Belgians, 237.
King John of Abyssinia, letter from, to Gordon, 214;
despotism of, 216;
forces men to change their religion, 216;
wants the taxes of ceded country, 219;
allowed to import arms at Massowah, 232;
and Towfik, 293;
and his men, 326, 338;
reported advance of, 347;
letter from, 511;
messenger from, 517.
Kinglake, 188.
Kitchener, notes from, 70;
letter from, 73;
notes to Stewart from, 92, 94;
note of, insufficient, 172;
to Chermside, 215;
the last information was from, 270;
old newspapers from, 289;
and Gordon, 312;
Government authorises, to pay Mahdi, 360;
description of, by Baker, 360;
as Governor-General, 362, 363, 373;
letter to Gordon from, 546;
and Wolseley, 546, 549.
Kokoo, Arabs at, 249.
Koran, defence of, 19;
interesting chapters in, 37;
sent by Angel Gabriel, 410.
Kordofan, questions as to prisoners in, 36;
Europeans deserve their fate, 51;
could not produce forty thousand men, 160, 235;
two insurrections in, 391;
return of Mahdi to, cut off, 391;
affairs in, 462;
advance of Mahdi into, 467;
defeat of relief column sent to, 468;
plan of campaign of, 496.
Korosko, party moving through desert of, 207;
desert, grant of monopoly of commerce in, 265.
Kourbatch, Ismail Ayoub and inutility of, 378.
Kowa, concentration of troops at, 459;
inactivity of troops at, 460.
L.
Latest time for arrival of troops, 226.
Leonidas, the Greek Consul, 77.
Letter from Gordon to Mahdi, 9;
to the Sheikh El Obeyed, 9;
from Abdel Kader, 11;
from Calamatino, 11;
sent out to Arabs, 13, 14;
from Waled a Goun, 20;
to Mahdi from Ulemas, 22;
from Faki Mustapha, 38;
from Arab camp, 38;
curious, found, 63;
to Abdel Kader, 66;
two letters, 71;
from Gordon, 72;
Gordon to Waled a Goun, 95;
letter from Waled a Goun by a woman, 185;
two from Arabs, 190;
from Faki Mustapha, 193;
from Slatin, 196, 198, 200;
from Greek Consul, 213;
from Slatin, 214;
from Arabs, 219;
from the Mahdi, &c., 220;
has come in, 270;
from Mahdi, 270;
Gordon has, from Stanley and Baker, 274;
accompanying sixth Journal, 278;
given by Gordon to Stewart on leaving Kartoum, 280;
Gordon declares not to obey, 307;
received with _Bordeen_, 358;
from Abd el Kader Ibrahim to Gordon, 399;
Gordon to Abd el Kader Ibrahim, 403;
from Abderrahhman en Najoomi and Abdallah en Noor to Gordon, 404;
from Gordon to Abderrahhman en Najoomi, 407;
from Calamatino to Gordon, 409;
from Cuzzi to Gordon, 409;
from Gordon to Cuzzi, 410;
from Ulema to Abd el Kader Ibrahim, 410;
from Faki Mustapha to Cassim el Mousse, 420;
from Mudir of Kartoum to Governor-General, 426;
from Gordon to Abd el Kader Ibrahim, 428;
from Abd el Kader Ibrahim to Gordon, 430;
from Abderrahhman Abdallah en Noor to Gordon, 432;
from Gordon to Abderrahhman, 438;
from Abderrahhman to Gordon, 440;
from Stewart to Gordon, 442;
from Herbin to Gordon, 445;
from Abou Gugliz to Gordon, 447;
from El Sayet Eltahen, and Hamed Idreer to Commandant of Omdurman
Fort, 448;
from Faki Mustapha to Commandant of Omdurman Fort, 450;
from Slatin Bey to Gordon, 452, 453;
from Slatin Bey to Hansall, 455;
from Emir Ali Mahommed Abou Saad Esshentrawi al Abadi to Zubair,
508; from Saleh Bey to Gordon, 511, 512, 514;
from Greek Consul at Adowa to Gordon, 516;
from Greek Consul Mitzakis to Greek Consul at Kartoum, 517;
from Slatin Bey to Gordon, 519;
from Mudir of Sennaar to Gordon, 520;
from Mahdi to Gordon, 522;
from Mohammed Sheikh Mohammed Kerkasawi to Achmet, 531;
from Fakir Karam Illah to Khalif Abdallah Ben, 534;
from Kitchener to Gordon, 546;
from Roth to Gordon, 547;
from Sir J. Pauncefote to Roth, 548;
from Khedive of Egypt to Gordon, 550;
from Kalifa Abdulla Mahommed to Gordon, 553.
Lies of officers, 255, 339.
Lines, greatest insecurity felt respecting the, 266;
the weakest part of, 303.
Lincoln and abolition of slavery, 389.
Livingstone’s explorations, 171.
Lloyd-Clifford row with Nubar, 283.
Loot on left bank of Nile, 116.
Lord Mayor’s Show Day, Kartoum ought to have been relieved on, 260.
Lupton, surrender of, 21;
at Shaka, 224;
and surrender to Mahdi, 536.
M.
Maatak, defeat of rebels near, 479.
Machufats, 168.
Mahdi, progress of, 21;
arrival at Kartoum likely to prevent a massacre, 31;
a hypocrite and drinker of alcohol, 32;
puts pepper under finger-nails to make himself weep, 32;
the same recipe recommended to Cabinet Ministers, 33;
quarters on the Nile, 40;
and taking of Kartoum, 44;
meditates invasion of Egypt and Palestine, 44;
more powerful at a distance, 45;
programme of, 45;
Gordon envies, 45;
not the forces of, to be feared, 46;
strength of, at defeat of Hicks, 46;
as a slave hunter, 55;
at Rahad, 63;
proposes peace to tribes, 68;
at Schatt, 62;
will say he kicked you out, 86;
pity to give up Kartoum to, 87;
not at Schatt, 109;
dream of, 111;
at Schatt, 129;
Roman Catholic Mission with, 129;
Slatin with, 129;
would be strengthened by skeddadle, 138;
intends to come to Omdurman, 142;
all Europeans with, 143;
Frenchman imprisoned by, 144;
at Jura Hadra, 155;
expected at Omdurman, 158;
and Cuzzi, 164;
camp of, opposite Gitana, 170;
number with him, 170;
good thing to be near, 172;
not likely to attack Omdurman, 173;
people glad at approach of, 174;
one day’s march from Omdurman, 177;
number of regulars and guns with, 177;
intends bombarding Kartoum, 178;
promises Gordon letters, 186;
date of attack of, 186;
no news of arrival of, at Omdurman, 190;
no sign of, at Omdurman, 193;
reported at Isle of Abba, 195;
uncertainty as to movements of, 197;
and Kordofan respecting the arrests, 198;
lies as to being close, 199;
at Jura Hadra, 202;
said to be opposite Kalakla, 208, 209;
speculated on a rising, 213;
arrival of, at Omdurman, 213;
and Europeans four hours distant, 215;
has put Saleh Pasha in chains, 215;
treaty with, 216;
suspected spies of, 216;
forces men to change their religion, 216;
and King John fanatics and robbers, 216;
treaty with about the garrison, 220;
number of Arabs with, when he started, 222;
moved ferry higher up, 233;
prestige gained from defeat of Hicks, 234;
and Zubair, 238;
belief that, is dead, 240;
number of men with, 240;
service of, gratuitous, 245;
regulars of, robbing Arabs, 246;
undecided, 247;
position at El foun might have been dangerous, 253;
at Kokoo not Arabs, 255;
reported as unwilling to fight during a sacred month, 255;
will not fight until after Moharrem, 258;
going into a cave for two months, 263;
all Europeans with, not in cave though, 263;
Slatin good friends with, 263;
and Sheikh el Islam, 264;
three companies of regulars sent by, to bring back deserters, 264;
gave family of Hussein Pasha Khalifa monopoly of Korosko desert,
265;
will not fight during Moharrem, 268;
not in cave, 270;
letter from, 270;
cipher books in hands of, 273;
what he would find in _Abbas_, 275;
best horseman of desert, 282;
and Slatin Bey on best terms with, 283;
and Gordon’s seals, 285;
camp of, moved, 293;
closer to Omdurman, 294;
camp of, alongside Faki Mustapha, 295;
means to attack Omdurman, 295;
bringing up ammunition, 296;
prospect of getting to Mecca, 296;
worse than Zubair as to slave trade, 300;
number of men with, 303; does not mean to fight direct, 306;
and Firman of Towfik, 309;
first encounter with personal troops of, 317;
camp moved inland, 334;
may retire altogether, 334;
men sent by, towards Metemma, 346;
and Gordon’s fireworks, 356;
revelation of, 363;
caravan from Dongola to, 371;
Arabs of, going north, 375;
reported short of ammunition, 384;
set detachment of, opposite palace, 384;
offended with Gordon, 388;
reasons for the advancement of, 389;
return of, to Kordofan cut off, 391;
the present Imam, 399;
the Lord of All, 402;
lieutenants and slaves of, 404;
biography of, 457;
expedition sent to bring, to Kartoum, 459;
entrance of into Kordofan, 467;
defeat of, near Bara, 469;
proclamation issued by, 483;
position of, 494;
rumoured defeat of, 506;
Saleh Bey and the, 518;
despatches deciphered by, 520;
letter from, to Gordon, 522;
details contents of captured letters, telegrams, &c., 523;
and Cuzzi, 524;
manifesto of, to inhabitants of Kartoum, 539;
sign frommMahomed as being the, 540;
genealogy of, 545.
Mahmoud Khalifa and camels for English, 262;
a traitor, 262;
at Dongola or Debbeh, 262;
extraordinary to employ, 263.
Mahomed, the chosen one, 410.
Mahomed Khowajli, 420.
Mahomed Pasha Hassan, approves of the arrests, 195.
Mahomet Achmet accepted generally by Soudan families as Mahdi, 15;
proselytes of, 194, 262;
and taking of Omdurman Fort, 349;
letter from Ulema to, 429;
the Mahdi, 403, 439, 441.
_Mahomet Ali_, 35;
promise to capture by a sheikh, 105;
on Blue Nile, 214;
expected with grain, 229;
at Giraffe, 363.
Mahomet Ali Pasha, 56;
prisoners killed in defeat of, 167;
“fighting Pasha”, 253;
reason of his defeat, 254.
Mahomet Bey Agad, 154.
Mahomet Edrees, 188.
Mahomet el Khair a cur, 208;
and English troops, 428, 434.
Mahomet Yusuf, Arabic name of Cuzzi, 24, 402.
Malet, Sir Edward, held responsible for Soudan disasters, 21;
the Co. are Colvin and, 42;
the “Siren”, 61;
Vivian, and Colvin and desert ride, 362.
Malta and Gibraltar weak, 240.
Mamelukes, 325.
Man, pre-eminence of, over all creatures, 50;
future happiness of, in being finite intelligences, 51;
misery of, 51;
current value of, in the world, 91;
essence of treachery, 102.
Manifesto of Mahdi, 539.
Mankind, Gordon’s love of the study of, 100.
_Mansowrah_, action with Arabs, 94, 95;
to stay at Shendy, 206.
Manzal Hamid, Sheikh, 535.
Marabiyeh, moral effect of victory of, 492.
Mark cited, 179.
Marrying and giving in marriage, 243.
Martyrs, men of the present compared with the, 6.
Mason, Col., 54.
Massodaglia, men like, wanted, 209.
Massowah, Turks should land at, 136;
useless, except as port of Soudan, 242;
telegram from, 291.
Matthew cited, 179.
Mecca, Mahdi’s prospects of reaching, 296.
Medgliss, 142;
finds every one sent before it guilty, 155.
Melon, the great, 266.
Merchants, Gordon pretends to send, to Waled a Goun, 269;
robbers of biscuits, 314.
Merissa, 439.
Merowé, tales of troops at, 38;
as regards route of expeditionary force, 248, 249;
to Berber, best course, 257;
Stewart felt secure at, 285;
and arrival of English troops, 438.
Meshra-el-Dai, defeat of rebels at, 484.
Messenger, Arabs fire on, 403.
Messengers, only Gordon’s, to bring news, 91;
telegrams compared with, 92.
Metemma, attack on market of, 46;
steamers await orders at, 130;
post left for, 183;
steamers bombarding, 208;
Gordon would make, base for operations of Nile valley, 257;
caravan from direction of, 346;
Gordon’s mails captured in, 424;
Stewart passed, 443.
Military Journal and Slatin Bey, 519.
Mind relieved to write one’s bile, 340.
Mine exploded by donkey, 7, 13;
exploded, 247.
Ministers, Her Majesty’s, send no information, 92;
Gordon’s position with, 110.
“Minor Tactics”, 64.
Mirrors and Arabs, 222.
Mission, object of Gordon’s, 55;
of Gordon, 118.
Mitzakis, Greek Consul, letter from, 213, 214;
and letter to Greek Consul, 291;
arrival of, in Abyssinia, 516.
Mogrim, Krupp gun at, 316;
Gordon visits, 326;
Arabs fire on, 329;
Fort, the major killed at, 344;
shell practice from, 355.
Mohamed Bey Ibrahim and Gladstone collar, 202.
Mohammed Kerkasâwi, 531.
Mohammed Bey Zain, money taken by, 515.
Moharrem, Mahdi will not fight until after, 258;
and Saphia, Mahdi will not fight during, 268.
Mohi ed Deen Ibn el Arabi Sheikh, 542.
Moncrieff, Commander, death of, 501.
Momtoz Pasha and the building of the Palace, 377.
Money in specie and paper in Kartoum, 19th Oct., 206;
in Kartoum, 316.
Monopoly of Korosko desert given to Hussein Pasha Khalifa’s family,
165.
_Monsuhania_ reported disabled, 157.
Moon, total eclipse of, 194.
Moosa Mahomed, Mufti of Mejlis of Kartoum, 420.