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.

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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 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.