r--His intentions regarding
the succession--The Baggara and the Aulad-Belad--The
Baggara masters of the Sudan--Examples of their tyranny
--Emigration of the Rizighat tribe--Hostility between
the Khalifa's and the late Mahdi's households--The
Ashraf conspiracy--Witchcraft--The dispute between
the Khalifas--Riots in Omdurman--The Mahdi's widows 387

CHAPTER XXIV.

PREPARATIONS FOR THE FLIGHT.

Ohrwalder forms plans for escape--The fate of other
Europeans attempting to fly--Stricter surveillance--
Ohrwalder's means of livelihood--Letters from Cairo--
The faithful Ahmed Hassan discloses his plan--Archbishop
Sogaro--Miseries of captivity in Omdurman--Death of
Sister Concetta Corsi--Preparations for flight 408

CHAPTER XXV.

ON CAMELS ACROSS THE GREAT NUBIAN DESERT.

Father Ohrwalder and Sisters Venturini and Chincarini
escape--The ride for life--The rencontre with the
Dervish guard near Abu Hamed--Alarm of the party--The
journey across the great Nubian desert--Five hundred
miles on camel-back in seven days--Arrival at the
Egyptian outpost at Murat--Safe at last--Arrival in
Cairo 424

CHAPTER XXVI.

THE PRESENT KHALIFA'S DESPOTISM IN THE SUDAN.

Reflections on the situation in the Sudan--The horrors
of the present Khalifa's rule--How long shall it continue? 447

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, MAP AND PLAN.

PAGE
Father Ohrwalder, Sisters Venturini and Chincarini, and their
servant Adila (_Frontispiece_).

Zubeir Pasha 8

A native woman of Dongola 65

Hicks Pasha 74

Colonel Arthur Farquhar (Chief of Staff) 80

A Baggara emir, present at the annihilation of the Hicks
Expedition, and afterwards captured at Toski 89

Father Ohrwalder's interview with the Mahdi at Rahad,
concerning religion 107

The gold medal struck by Gordon to commemorate the siege
of Khartum 122

A Dervish emir present in the attack on Khartum, and
afterwards captured at Toski