Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892

by Josef Ohrwalder; Sir F. R. Wingate

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INDEX.

• Ababdeh tribe, [124]-[5], [213], [351], [353], [360], [399], [440]-[2].
• Abba Island, [6]-[7], [98].
• Abbas, steamer, [127]-[8].
• Abdel Baki, emir, [315]-[9].
• Abdel Gayum, eunuch, [294].
• Abdel Hadi (Arab), [263].
• Abdel Halim, Emir, [76], [78], [86], [88], [102], [260].
• Abdel Kader Pasha, [50], [164].
• Abdel Kader (Mahdi's uncle), [59], [155], [164], [214], [350], [400].
• Abdel Kader Guru, death of, [262].
• Abdel Karim (Mahdi's uncle), [160], [164]-[5].
• Abdel Majid, [256], [326], [343].
• Abdel Maula, [228].
• Abdel Nur, [320]-[322].
• Abdel Samad, [93].
• Abderrahman Wad Abu Degel, [253].
• Abderrahman Wad en Nejumi, [16], [60], [96], [98], [125]-[6], [130], [141], [145], [149], [165], [171], [206], [233], [255]-[61], [350], [387], [412];
  • vanquished at Argin, [262]-[5];
  • death of, [263].
• Abdullah et Taishi, Khalifa, [10]-[1], [14], [43]-[6], [64], [66], [69]-[71], [87], [96], [120], [131], [146], [149], [151];
  • and King Adam, [95];
  • and the sisters, [100];
  • and Father Ohrwalder, [116]-[7];
  • succeeds the Mahdi, [162]-[3], [185], [188];
  • and revolt of black soldiers of old Sudan
  • army, [193]-[200];
  • at Omdurman, [202]-[3], [206];
  • and Wad Suleiman, [206]-[7];
  • Ibrahim Wad Adlan, [207]-[8], [323]-[7];
  • and coinage at Omdurman, [210]-[3];
  • system of justice, [214]-[5], [328]-[335];
  • and Fiki Medawi, [218];
  • and Yunis emir, [219]-[20];
  • and King John, [221];
  • and Abu Anga, [224];
  • grand review at Omdurman, [225]-[6];
  • war with Abyssinia, [228]-[31], [242]-[52];
  • and Saleh Bey, [232]-[4];
  • and Darfur, [235]-[41];
  • and Egypt, [254]-[6], [258]-[69];
  • letters from, [257];
  • sends expedition up the White Nile, [269]-[72];
  • and the Mahdi's decrees, [273];
  • followers of, [274];
  • and the Mahdi's tomb, [275]-[9];
  • palace and houses of, [280]-[1];
  • and war requisites, [281], [366]-[75];
  • and the famine in Omdurman, [287]-[92];
  • description of, [293];
  • dress and food of, [293]-[4];
  • harem of, [294];
  • illnesses of, [294]-[5];
  • character, [295]-[6];
  • spies of, [295];
  • and political conversations, [296], [320];
  • mosque at Omdurman, [297]-[8];
  • and visions, [298]-[9];
  • a man of great activity, [300];
  • fondness for music, [301];
  • his barber, [301];
  • life-guards and household cavalry of, [301]-[2];
  • and business affairs of the State, [302];
  • displays of magnificence, [302]-[4];
  • cleanliness of, [304];
  • grand reviews at Omdurman, [307]-[8];
  • and the Taisha Arabs, [308]-[11];
  • and firearms, [311]-[2];
  • his brother, see "Yakub";
  • and the Batahin tribe, [315]-[20];
  • and Abdel Nur, [321]-[2];
  • and the Saier at Omdurman, [347]-[52];
  • and Charles Neufeld, [355]-[60];
  • and Sheikh Khalil, [361]-[4];
  • and the slave trade, [384]-[5];
  • and the Baggaras, [387]-[405];
  • his son Osman, [390]-[1];
  • strict surveillance over the whites, [412]-[3];
  • horrors of his rule, [447]-[50].
• Abdullah Wad en Nur, [60], [98], [100], [115], [125], [143].
• Abdullah Wad Ibrahim, [38], [223], [225], [227], [229];
  • and Abyssinia, [247], [252]-[3].
• Abu Anga (commander-in-chief of Mahdi's forces), [60], [85]-[9], [98], [111]-[2], [125], [131], [164], [171], [175], [202], [402];
  • description and history of, [221]-[31];
  • and Abyssinia, [242]-[4];
  • death of, [245]-[6];
  • and slave trade, [384].
• Abu Gemaizeh, religious reformer, [237]-[40].
• Abu Girgeh, emir, [76], [81], [94], [125], [167]-[8], [218], [267], [360].
• Abu Habl, the Khor, [3], [78]-[9].
• Abu Hamed, [364], [433];
  • rebels at, [120], [128].
• Abu Haraz, [219], [229].
• Abu Klea, battle of, [134], [147]-[8], [177].
• Abu Kru, battle of, [16], [134].
• Abu Kuka, [56].
• Abu Saud, [7].
• Abyssinia, and Kassala garrisons, [166]-[7];
  • and Galabat, [217]-[20];
  • Abu Anga and, [229]-[31], [241]-[4];
  • defeat of King John's army, [245]-[53].
• Adam, King, of Tagalla, [95], [102], [223].
• Adansonia trees, [34], [40], [76], [88], [170], [198].
• Adila, girl at the Khartum Mission, [421], [424], [426].
• Adultery, the Mahdi's punishment for, [62].
• Agriculture in the Mahdiist kingdom, [376]-[85].
• Ahmed Bey Daffallah, [10], [21], [35], [38], [59], [252].
• Ahmed Bey Defterdar, [234].
• Ahmed Hassan and escape of Father Ohrwalder, [415]-[45].
• Ahmed Sharfi, [7], [140], [403]-[7].
• Ahmed Wad Suleiman, [63], [82]-[4], [96]-[7], [111], [139], [143]-[5], [161], [206]-[7], [350].
• Aigella, [77], [174].
• Aisha, the Mahdi's principal wife, [157], [159].
• Ala ed Din Pasha, [1], [77], [88].
• Alchemy, Sudanese and, [369].
• Alcoholic drinks, the Sudanese and, [17];
  • see also Marissa.
• Ali Bakhit, [172], [174], [199].
• Ali Bey Haider, Lieut-Col., [443].
• Ali Esh Sherif, Khalifa, [14]-[5], [37], [41], [59], [66], [69], [88], [93], [100], [146], [163];
  • at Omdurman, [202]-[3], [254], [306], [349], [399]-[407], [446].
• Ali Pasha, [127].
• Ali Wad Helu, Khalifa, [14], [146], [163], [282], [306], [403]-[7].
• Allegiance, sheikhs' oath of, [70].
• Aluba, Hicks at, [85].
• Amarar Arabs, [266]-[7].
• Andreis, Sister A., [48].
• Amhara, the chief of, [217].
• Amina (a black girl), [73].
• Ammunition, the Khalifa's, [366]-[75].
• Amulets, the fikis and, [274]-[5], [402].
• Ansar, the, [306]-[8], [353].
• Arabi, Baggara called, [265].
• Arabi Pasha, [77].
• Arabs; in Omdurman, [283];
  • see "Baggaras," "Bederieh," "Beni Jerrar," "Dar Hamed," "Ghodiat," "Gowameh," "Hawazma," "Kababish," &c.
• Argin, battle of, [115], [262].
• Aser, American Consul, [141].
• Ashaf Station, [11].
• Ashraf, the, [149], [214].
• Assiut, [443].
• Assuan, [174], [256].
• Atbara River, [249].
• Aulad-belad, the, [391]-[2], [405]-[6], [449].
• Austrian Mission, at Delen, [4]-[5], [24]-[30];
  • church at Khartum, [137]-[8];
  • at El Obeid, [200];
  • see also "Sisters."
• Awad el Kerim Abu Sin, [350].

• Baggara, tribe, [3], [14]-[5], [20], [25]-[6], [32], [49], [78], [106], [162]-[3], [178], [221], [255], [258], [266], [287], [293], [314], [325], [341];
  • horsemanship of, [308];
  • emirs, [312];
  • women, [381];
  • masters of the Sudan, [387]-[407], [449];
  • see also "Taisha Arabs."
• Bahr el Arab, [3].
• Bahr el Ghazal, slave trade in, [8]-[9], [12], [176], [383];
  • revolt in, [241].
• Bahr el Karrar, [257]-[8].
• Baker Pasha, General Valentine, defeat of, [119];
  • at El Teb, [266].
• Banners of the Mahdi's Khalifas, see "Flags."
• Bara town, [11], [55], [77], [200]-[2], [235];
  • fall of, [56].
• Barabra tribe, [125], [255], [391], [399];
  • language of, [283].
• Bashra, the Mahdi's son, [159].
• Batahin tribe, [205], [260], [315]-[20].
• Bayuda Desert, [16].
• Bederieh Arabs, the, [3], [11], [20], [106], [167].
• Beit el mal at Omdurman, [208]-[14], [312], [323], [380], [393]-[5].
• Ben en Naga Bey, [21], [88]-[9];
  • son of, [333];
  • daughter of, [343].
• Benga village, [430].
• Beni Helba tribe, [240].
• Beni Jerrar Arabs, [35], [238].
• Berber, [1], [14];
  • fall of, [121], [124]-[5];
  • Gordon at, [123], [208], [256], [312], [380], [396], [430], [439];
  • Osman Digna at, [266], [268];
  • old, [275];
  • famine in, [290].
• Berghof, a German, [9].
• Birket, [3], [11], [20]-[1], [28], [34], [86], [91].
• Bishir, [197], [224], [227].
• Bishir Bey, [259].
• Blue Nile, [126], [133]-[4], [150], [204], [227], [379];
  • towns on the, [284].
• Bonomi, Father, [1], [5], [27], [31]-[2], [43], [50], [56], [68]-[71], [73], [97], [100], [118], [170], [172]-[3];
  • escape of, [178]-[84], [186], [352].
• Books, the Mahdi and, [63];
  • Khalifa Abdullah and, [299], [400]-[1].
• Borgo, Sultan of, [12], [237].
• Brick-making at Delen, [5].
• Bringi, executioner at Omdurman, [318], [325], [356].
• British East Africa, Imperial, Co., [271].
• 'Bruce's Travels' and the Batahin tribe, [315].
• Buri village, [125], [132].
• Busata village, [174].

• Cairo, [1], [254];
  • merchants of, and El Obeid, [35];
  • Ohrwalder's arrival at, [443].
• Camels, in Kordofan, [35]-[6], [379];
  • of the Gehena tribe, [226], [228];
  • of the Kababish tribe, [232], [234];
  • for Ohrwalder's escape, [422], [427], [442].
• Cattle in Dar Nuba, [4];
  • in Kordofan, [35];
  • of the Arabs, [126];
  • of the Gehena tribe, [226];
  • breeding in the Sudan, [376]-[9];
  • cows of the Shilluks, [379].
• Cemetery, European, at Khartum, [150].
• Chad Lake, [241].
• Chincarini, Sister C., [413]-[45].
• Clementino, George, [126], [142].
• Clothing in the Mahdi's kingdom, [381].
• Coins in Omdurman, [210]-[13].
• Comboni, Bishop, [1], [2], [24];
  • grave of, at Khartum, [150].
• Combotti, Marietta, [118].
• Comet, a wonderful, [44].
• Commerce in the Mahdiist kingdom, [376]-[85].
• Corsi, Sister Concetta, [57], [419].
• Cripples in Omdurman, [337].
• Curios, museum of, at Omdurman, [213].
• Cuzzi, Joseph, [120], [125]-[6].

• Dabarosa bazaar, the, [258].
• Dabra Sin, battle of, [229].
• Dair, Jebel, [3].
• Damur, pieces of cloth, [381]-[2];
  • used as coins, [210].
• Danagla, see "Dongola."
• Dara, [93].
• Dar Fertit, singers from, [301].
• Darfur, [12], [35];
  • Slatin Bey, Governor of, [2];
  • the Mahdi conquers, [93]-[4], [98];
  • historical sketch of, [234]-[41];
  • Zogal and, [201]-[3];
  • revolt in, [260], [387];
  • horses in, [308];
  • women and spinning, [381];
  • slaves from, [384].
• Dar Homr (Arabs), [11], [20], [35], [106], [301], [309], [396].
• Dar Nauli tribe of Arabs, [106].
• Dar Nuba, see "Nuba."
• Dar Shaggieh, [380].
• Dead, the Mahdi's law about the, [19].
• Debaineh tribe, [290].
• Degheim tribe, [14].
• Delen, arrival at, [3];
  • Mission at, [4], [5];
  • news of the Mahdi at, [7], [8];
  • description of, [23]-[31];
  • quicksilver at,
  • [35], [178], [187], [197].
• Dervishes, the Mahdi's, [45];
  • at El Obeid, [57]-[9];
  • and Hicks Pasha's army, [88];
  • in Khartum, [140];
  • and Olivier Pain, [173];
  • revolt against, [189]-[200];
  • at Galabat, [217]-[9];
  • review of, at Omdurman, [225]-[6];
  • and tobacco chewing, [276];
  • and the famine in Omdurman, [289];
  • at Fashoda, [384].
• Dhurra in Omdurman, [285], [378], [381].
• Dichtl, Johann, [1].
• Dinka tribe, [176].
• Disease in the Sudan, [386].
• Dispensary at Omdurman, [213].
• Dobab mountain, [3], [102].
• Dogman mountain, [24], [28].
• Dogs, Mahdi's doctrine about, [143], [335].
• Doka, Sheikh Egeil and, [219].
• Dome to Mahdi's tomb at Omdurman, [275], [277].
• Dongola, [12], [14], [35], [94], [127], [163], [172], [178], [190], [255], [256], [257]-[65], [268], [312], [380], [384], [387], [391], [396], [399], [449];
  • famine in, [290];
  • language, [283].
• Doorway of the Mahdi's tomb, [277].
• Dreams, the Mahdi and, [110]-[1], [353], [449].
• Drums of the Mahdi's Khalifas, [15], [44], [47], [281], [304]-[6].
• Dud Benga, Sultan, [184].
• Duem, [126];
  • General Hicks at, [76].
• Dwarf, a, at Rahad, [110].

• Ed Din, Sheikh, see "Osman, Khalifa."
• Egeil, sheikh, [218]-[9], [221].
• Egypt, and Delen, [4];
  • and the Sudan, [34];
  • Abdullah and, [254]-[6], [257]-[69];
  • and the Sudan, [123], [323];
  • Wad Adlan and, [326];
  • the Mahdi and, [110].
• Egyptian troops, Hicks Pasha's, [77]-[90], [92]-[3].
• El Eilafun, [127].
• El Fasher, steamer, [128].
• El Merhdi Abu Rof, [164], [226]-[7].
• El Obeid, [2], [6];
  • garrison of, [10], [21];
  • the Mahdi and, [11], [20], [29], [36]-[41];
  • description of, [34]-[6];
  • siege of, [52]-[7], [232];
  • Zogal at, [75];
  • the Mahdi leaves, [85], [99]-[100];
  • triumphal return to, [91]-[3], [170]-[2];
  • King Adam at, [95];
  • Lupton Bey at, [176];
  • small-pox in, [183];
  • revolt of black soldiers at, [189]-[200], [223];
  • slaves at, [383]-[4].
• El Obeid, Sheikh, [124], [127], [130], [315].
• El Teb, battle of, [266].
• Elephants, [3]; in Darfur, [241].
• Elias el Kurdi, [210].
• Elias Pasha, [10], [12], [21], [35], [40], [76], [88], [93];
  • son of, [86].
• Elias Wad Kanuna, emir, [271].
• • Gordon and, [133];
  • and Lupton Bey, [176];
  • Khalifa Abdullah and, [269]-[72].
• Emin Pasha, [11];
• Emirs, the, of the Sudan provinces, [46], [312].
  • and the Sudan, [450].
• England and Egypt, [262];
• English mail, capture of an, [120].
  • and Kababish tribe, [232];
  • at Dongola, June 1885, [256].
• English Relief Expedition to Khartum, [147]-[9], [176]-[8];
• Equatoria, Abdullah's expedition to, [269]-[72].
• Exports from Kordofan, [35].