136

An Egyptian Harem woman 156

"Many a time did I turn round to look back, until
Bonomi disappeared from view in the wood" 181

A slave woman from Equatoria 209

Abyssinian dancing girls 243

An Arab sheikh of Upper Egypt 255

Bishir Bey, sheikh of the Ababdeh Arabs 259

Wad en Nejumi (from a photograph of a drawing made by
an Egyptian officer of the great Emir, as he lay dead
on the field of Toski) 264

A native woman of Makaraka, the wife of one of Emin
Pasha's officers, who reached Egypt from Uganda in
June 1892 270

A trophy of arms, banners, and drums, captured from
the Dervishes 305

Charles Neufeld 354

A slave girl from Equatoria 382

A Baggara woman 398

The Arab guides who effected the escape of Father
Ohrwalder and the Sisters 409

"We had scarcely gone twenty paces from the river,
when suddenly we heard the sound of a camel" 435

Plan of Omdurman.

Map of the Nile Basin, showing route taken by Father Ohrwalder.

TEN YEARS'
CAPTIVITY IN THE MAHDI'S CAMP.

1882-1892.

INTRODUCTION.

FATHER OHRWALDER's JOURNEY TO THE SUDAN.

Description of Kordofan and Dar Nuba--The Mission Station at Delen.

I left Cairo on the 28th of December, 1880, as full of bright hopes for
a happy future as any young man could wish to be. I had no thought of
the miserable fate which was so soon to overtake me.

Our party consisted of Bishop Comboni, two missionaries, Johann Dichtl
and Franz Pimezzoni (these three have long since passed into eternity),
and several sisters. We embarked at Suez, and spent the first day of
1881 on the Red Sea. On the 4th of January we landed at Sawakin. At that
time the governor of the town was Ala ed Din Pasha, who subsequently
accompanied General Hicks as Governor-General of the Sudan, and was
eventually killed with him. A