;
famine in, 284-9;
plagues of locusts and mice in, 291-2;
thieves in, 328-9, 334-5, 340;
system of justice at, 329-33;
cripples in, 337;

immorality in, 341;
marriages in, 341-3;
Saier, or prison at, 344-65;
Neufeld in, 355-60;
scarcity of powder at, 367-75;
sand-storms at, 376-7;
slaves in, 383-6;
the Greeks in, 412;
dress of women in, 413;
Ohrwalder's last day at, 424;
flight from, 445, 449.

Om Herezeh mountain, 34, 46.

Om Sadik, 224.

Omshanga, 94.

Onbeia (wind instrument), 15, 44, 306.

Ongat wells, 259.

Ornaments, the Mahdi and Sudanese, 18.

Ornithology: Birds in Dar Nuba, 3-4;
kites at El Obeid, 53;
vultures, 77, 88, 290.

Oshra Well, 40, 47.

Osman, Khalifa, 308, 353-4, 389.

Osman Azrak, 260.

Osman Digna, 11, 64, 166-7;
defeat of, 266-8.

Osman Wad Adam, 199, 234, 236;
and Abu Gemaizeh, 238-41;
death of, 240.

Osman Wad Dekeim, 167.

Ostrich farms in Kordofan, 35.

Pain, Olivier, at El Obeid, 172-75.

Palace, the Khalifa's, at Omdurman, 280.

Passioni, Jew named, 360.

Pesavento, Sister E., 48.

Pilgrims at Omdurman, 206.

Pimezzoni, Franz, 1.

Plagues in the Sudan: of locusts, 291;
of mice, 291-2.

Plough, a, in the Sudan, 378.

Poetry, the Arabs and, 67.

Polinari, Domenico, 138-40, 349-50.

Postal service in the Mahdi's kingdom, 300-1.

Powder, scarcity of, at Omdurman, 359, 367-75.

Power, Consul, 99, 129-30.

Prayers, the Mahdi and, 19;
book of, 213;
form of, 296.

Printing press at Omdurman, 213.

Prison at Omdurman, 344-65.

Proclamation by the Mahdi, 76.

Quicksilver found at Delen, 35.

Rabeh Zubeir, 240, 241.

Rahad, General Hicks at, 77-85;
the road to, 101-3;
the Mahdi at, 106-21, 125-6, 169.

Rahma, fiki, 11.

Rain in Dar Nuba, 3;
in the Sudan, 376.

Ramadan, fast of, 64, 158.

Ras Adal, 247; and Galabat, 217-20.

Ras Alula, 167, 247.

Rashid Bey, 9.

Ratibs (Mahdi's book of prayers), 213.

Rauf Pasha, 1-2, 6-7.

Regaf Station, 269, 271-2, 340, 384, 396.

Religion, interview with the Mahdi on, 109-11.

Reptiles, 150;
snakes, 3-4, 433;
scorpions, 114, 347.

Review of Dervishes at Omdurman, 225-6, 307-8.

Rizighat tribe of Arabs, 73, 221, 396-7.

Roads in Omdurman, 280;
in the Sudan, 341.