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

by Josef Ohrwalder; Sir F. R. Wingate

• Fadl Maula Bey, [163], [271],
• [401].
• Fallata tribe, [278], [283].
  • in the Sudan, [252]-[3];
  • in Dongola, [261];
  • in Omdurman, [284]-[9];
  • in Berber, [290];
  • in the Provinces, [290]-[1].
• Famines; in El Obeid, [183]-[4];
• Farag Pasha, [135], [143].
• Faragallah Pasha, [131]-[2], [247].
• Farquhar, Colonel Arthur, [79], [80].
  • besieged, [239]-[41].
• Fasher, El, [94];
  • corn from, [285].
• Fashoda, [9], [11], [29], [269], [272], [379], [384], [396];
• Fedasi, [125].
• Festivals, Khalifa Abdullah and, [362].
• Fiki, Abdullah and the name, [274], [402].
• Flags of the Khalifas, [15], [16], [281], [306].
• Furs, annihilation of the, [236].

• Galabat, province and town, [167], [217]-[9], [230], [242], [244];
  • attack on, [247]-[8], [396];
  • famine at, [290].
• Gallows at Omdurman, [283], [317]-[8].
• Gedaref, garrison of, [216]-[7], [290].
• Gedir, Jebel, [3], [7], [10], [20], [223].
• Gehena tribe, [226]-[7], [260]-[1].
• Gellabas (traders), [14]-[5], [112], [189], [426], [428].
• Georges Bey, Dr., [86];
  • son-in-law of, [141].
• Gessi Pasha, [2];
  • and the slave trade, [8]-[9], [241], [383].
• Gezireh, the Mahdi and, [14], [64], [93]-[4]
• , [229], [284], [315], [380], [390].
• Ghazali, Sheikh, [310]-[1], [350].
• Ghittas, festival known as, [218].
• Ghodiat Arabs, the, [3], [11], [20], [106].
• Gianzara Hill, [40], [46].
• Giegler Pasha, [2], [7].
• Giniss, battle of, [256].
• Girls in Khartum, Mahdi and, [144].
  • in the Sudan provinces, [379].
• Goats in Dar Nuba, [4];
• Gold in Dar Nuba, [3].
• Golfan-Naïma, [22]-[3], [49], [197], [223]-[4].
• Gondar, [230]-[1], [248]-[9].
  • arrives at Khartum, [97], [121]-[2];
  • letter to the Mahdi, [98];
  • the Mahdi and, [111], [119], [126], [130];
  • English letters to, [120];
  • at Berber, [123]-[4];
  • defeat of Gordon's troops, [124]-[5];
  • successful attack by, [127];
  • besieged, and death of, at Khartum, [131]-[54], [177], [207]-[8];
  • Sheikh Khalil and, [361];
  • at Murat, [440].
• Gordon, General, [57], [96];
  • viâ Berber, [266].
• Gordon Relief Expedition, [147]-[9], [176]-[8];
• Gowameh tribe, [11], [344].
• Graham, General, [120]-[1], [266].
• Greeks, the, at Khartum, [133], [142]-[3].
• Greger Hamed (Emir), [233].
  • battle at Toski, [263], [265].
• Grenfell, General Sir F., [256], [262], [444];
• Gubat, [148], [154], [429].
• Guineas coined at Omdurman, [210].
  • used as food at El Obeid, [53];
  • at Omdurman, [323].
• Gum, in Kordofan, [35];

• Habbanieh tribe of Arabs, [73], [258].
• Hadarba merchants, [399].
• Hadendoa Arabs, [266], [283].
• Haimar Wells, [257].
• Haj Ali Wad Saad, [123]-[4].
• Hajji Abdullah Granteli, [210].
• Hajji Khaled (Emir), [21], [35], [46], [71];
  • son of, [86].
• Hajji Mohammed Ben en Naga, [35].
• Hajji Selim (soldier), [49], [190]-[1].
• Hajji Zubeir, [240], [349]-[50], [396]-[7].
• Halfaya, [127].
• Hamran Arabs, [218].
• Handub, battle of, [267].
• Hansal (Austrian consul), [1], [67]-[9], [73], [118]-[9];
  • death of, [139]-[40].
• Hashish, use of, [17].
• Hasib, emir, [271].
• Hassan Khalifa, [257], [364]-[5].
• Hassan en Nejumi (emir), [264].
• Hassan Husni (interpreter), [128], [130].
• Hassan Sadik, [164].
• Hassan Zeki, [366].
• Hebbeh village, [128].
• Heddai, sheikh, [129].
• Herlth, Major, extracts from diary of, [77]-[9], [86].
• Hicks Pasha, General, [1];
  • and Wad Makashef, [73];
  • expedition of, [75];
  • at Duem, [76];
  • at Rahad, [77]-[85];
  • defeat and death of, [86]-[92], [121], [169], [176];
  • white horse of, [91];
  • Bible of, [100];
  • stable, [157].
• Hilmi Gorab, [128].
• Horses, the Sudanese and, [308].
• Housebreakers in Omdurman, [334]-[5].
• Howazma Arabs, [20], [106], [222].
• Hussein Pasha, [120], [123], [125], [439];
  • son of, [442].
• Hussein Wad ed Dayim, [339]-[40].
• Hyenas, [88], [289]-[90].

• Ibrahim Nur, [394]-[5].
• Ibrahim Pasha Fauzi, [143].
• Ibrahim Ramadan, [203].
• Ibrahim Wad Adlan, [35], [207]-[10], [214], [322]-[4], [350], [368];
  • death of, [325]-[7].
• Ibrahim Wad Abu Tagalla, [225].
• Ibrahim Wad el Ahmer, [445]-[6].
• Idris (sheikh), [101], [111], [114]-[7], [260], [350];
  • death of, [262].
• Imbrien, Bishop, of the Tyrol, [118].
• Immorality, Mahdi's law regarding, [62];
  • in the Sudan, [341]-[3];
  • of slaves, [385]-[6].
• Imports of the Mahdi's kingdom, [380].
• Insects, at Delen, [4], [5];
  • Neufeld and, [357];
  • white ants as food, [53];
  • lizards, [150];
  • flies, [114].
• Iron in Kordofan, [35].
• Isa,
• sheikh, [28].
• Isa, fiki, of the Shanabla, [194].
• Ismail el Kheir, [400].
• Ismail Wad el Andok, [22], [49], [59], [227], [229], [247].
• Ismail Pasha, [234]-[5].
• Italy and Kassala, [168].
  • at Omdurman, [323].
• Ivory, expedition to Equatoria to collect, [271];

• Jaalin tribe, [123], [125], [255], [368], [384], [391], [399], [449].
• Jabrallah, Sultan, [236], [350].
• Jebel Dair, the Mahdi and, [111]-[2], [114], [199].
• Jebel Naïma, [197].
• Jerusalem, the Mahdi and, [110].
• Jew merchants at Omdurman, [312];
  • at Kassala, [360].
• Jibbehs, the Mahdi and the manufacture of, [19].
• Jinns, the, [307].
• John, King of Abyssinia, throne of, [213];
  • and Galabat, [217], [247]-[9];
  • Abdullah and, [221], [242];
  • and Abu Anga, [243];
  • death of, [250]-[2].
• Justice, system of, at Omdurman, [214]-[5], [329]-[34].

• Kaba, [34], [36]-[7], [39].
• Kababish tribe (Arabs), [35], [55], [64], [78], [178];
  • destruction of the, [232]-[4].
• Kadi Ahmed, [214]-[5], [246]-[7], [329], [350].
• Kakum of Delen, [4], [24], [26]-[8], [31]-[2], [178];
  • death of, [186]-[7].
• Kalabsheh, village of, [257].
• Kalakala, [130]-[2].
• Kamal ed Din, and manufacture of powder, [367]-[8].
• Karamallah (slave-dealer), [176], [269], [406];
  • in Darfur, [235]-[6].
• Karkoj, [226], [290], [380].
• Kashgeil, Hicks at, [85], [87].
• Kashm el Mus, Pasha, [148].
• Kassala, [154], [162], [164]-[5], [168], [387], [396];
  • siege of, [166]-[7];
  • Osman Digna at, [266];
  • famine at, [290].
• Kavalli, Stanley's camp at, [271].
• Kawakla, natives called, [7].
• Kebkebieh, [94].
• Kedaro hill, [3].
• Kenana tribe, [14].
• Kererri, [12], [307], [311], [361], [412].
• Khabir, Pasha, of Darfur, [36].
• Khalifas in the Sudan, see "Abdullah," "Ali Wad Helu," "Ali Esh Sherif," Hassan, "Osman," &c.
• Khalil, sheikh, [360]-[4].
• Khartum, [1], [6], [7], [72], [93]-[4], [96]-[7], [106];
  • the Mahdi's advance on, [99], [121], [126]-[7], [130];
  • Gordon arrives at, [121]-[3];
  • siege and fall of, [131]-[54], [177], [348];
  • in ruins, [204], [216];
  • materials for Mahdi's tomb from, [276];
  • the Batahin tribe and, [315], [320];
  • Neufeld at, [357], [359];
  • survivors of, [372].
• Khatafin (snatchers) in Omdurman, [286]-[8].
• Khojali, [130], [219], [317].
• Khojur, the, in Dar Nuba, [4], [24], [26], [28].
• Khor Musa, fort at, [259].
• Kirkesawi (slave-dealer), [176], [236], [406].
• Kitchener Pasha, [359];
  • wounded at Handub, [267].
• Klein, tailor, of Khartum, [140]-[1].
• Klootz, Gustav, [80]-[5], [88], [91], [93], [96], [109], [120], [174]-[5], [206], [348], [411];
  • death of, [219].
• Korbatsh, Mount, [34], [179], [200].
• Kordofan, [199], [234], [380], [398];
  • deserts of, [2]-[3];
  • military stations in, [11]-[2];
  • the Mahdi and, [20], [28];
  • mountains, [34];
  • exports from, [35]-[6];
  • camels in, [35]-[6], [72];
  • agriculture in, [378]-[9].
• Korosko, [257], [442]-[3].
• Korsi, [68].
• Kudru hill, [32].
• Kumbo, King, [98]-[9], [117]-[8].
• Kuran, the, concerning ministers of Christianity, [104]-[6];
  • first chapter in, [296].
• Kurun hill, [3].

• Lado Station, [272], [384].
• Languages in the Sudan provinces, [283].
• Laws made by the Mahdi, [17]-[20], [61]-[3].
• Lead, manufacture of, at Omdurman, [368]-[70].
• Legnani (Italian consul), [1].
• Leontides, Consul N., [126], [134], [140].
• Lime, near Delen, [5];
  • pits in Omdurman, [205], [276].
• Limona, Bianca, [57].
• Locatelli (missionary), [54], [56]-[7].
• Locusts, plague of, in the Sudan, [291].
• Losi, Father Johann, [54], [58].
• Lugard, Captain, [271].
• Lupton Bey, [153], [175]-[7], [191], [202], [348], [412]-[3];
  • death of, [366].

• Madibbo, sheikh, [235];
  • son of, [396].
• Mahbas, wells of, [233].
• Mahdi, the, see "Mohammed Ahmed."
• Mahdiism, belief in, [185];
  • and Egypt, [265];
  • in the Sudan, [255], [273], [326], [328], [403], [449];
  • and the slave trade, [382]-[6].
• Mahdiist kingdom, agriculture and commerce in, [376]-[86].
• Mahmud Wad Ahmed, [240]-[1], [247]-[9].
• Mail, capture of an English, [120].
• Makada tribe, [241].
• Makani village, [428].
• Makbul dollar, the, in Omdurman, [210]-[4].
• Makias (chains), [345]-[6].
• Makin Wad en Nur, [260], [350].
• Manoli, a Greek, [142].
• Mansureh, steamer, [127].
• Marcopoli Bey, [2], [73].
• Mariani, Gabriel, [5], [41], [48].
• Marissa (a kind of beer), [4];
  • the Mahdi and drinking of, [61], [330], [340].
• Market at Omdurman, [282], [339].
• Marquet, [2].
• Marriage ceremonies in the Sudan, [17]-[8], [341]-[3], [389]-[90].
• Masalit, Sultan of, [213]; people, [237].
• Mecca, pilgrimage to, [278]-[9], [448];
  • the Mahdi and, [110];
  • a Sherif of, [412].
• Medawi, fiki, [124], [218], [221].
• Mek Omar, [28]-[32], [49]-[50], [178];
  • son of, see "Naser."
• Melbeis, [95], [196].
• Meshra Dehesh, [434], [437].
• Messalamieh gate at Khartum, [150].
• Metemmeh, [123], [268], [429].
• Miracles, the Mahdi and, [7]-[8];
  • performed by Sid el Hassan, [166].
• Miserieh tribe of Arabs, [106], [222].
• Mice, plague of, at Omdurman, [291]-[2].
• Minneh, fiki, [11], [20], [37], [39]-[40], [46], [56], [59]-[60].
• Mint, the, at Omdurman, [209]-[13].
• Missionaries, at El Obeid, [40]-[51];
  • see also "Bonomi," "Losi," "Ohrwalder," "Rossignoli."
• Mission Stations; see "Austrian Mission."
• Mohammed Ahmed, sheikh, [396].
• Mohammed Ahmed (the Mahdi), rise of, [7]-[9];
  • and Kordofan, [10]-[12];
  • antecedents of, [12];
  • outward appearance of, [13];
  • Khalifas of, [14]-[5];
  • military organization of, [15]-[6];
  • new laws made by, [17]-[20], [60]-[3], [273];
  • summons El Obeid to surrender, [20]-[1];
  • defeat of, before El Obeid, [34], [36]-[41];
  • and the missionaries, [42]-[51];
  • siege of El Obeid, [53]-[9];
  • finances, [62]-[3];
  • art of winning over people, [66]-[7];
  • and Consul Hansal's letter, [68]-[71], [73];
  • victory over Hicks Pasha, [75]-[90];
  • triumphal entry into El Obeid, [91]-[2];
  • and province of Darfur, [93]-[4];
  • General Gordon and, [98], [130];
  • and the sisters, [103]-[6];
  • and Father Ohrwalder, on religion, [109]-[11];
  • and Slatin Bey, [118];
  • and violation of moral laws, [121];
  • religious movement of, [122]-[3];
  • and Cuzzi, [125]-[6];
  • siege of Khartum, [126], [131]-[54];
  • his life of ease and luxury, [60]-[4], [155]-[9], [449];
  • principal wife of, [157];
  • dwelling of, [157];
  • harem, [158];
  • death of, [160]-[62], [185];
  • and Olivier Pain, [174]-[5];
  • and Egypt, [254]-[6];
  • tomb of, [275]-[80];
  • and immorality, [341], [343];
  • and property, [398];
  • wives of, [404], [406];
  • capital of the Mahdi's kingdom, see "Omdurman."
• Mohammed Ali, [234], [315], [439], [447].
• Mohammed el Kheir, [125], [130], [256].
• Mohammed Pasha Khabir, [21].
• Mohammed Suleiman, [186].
• Monasir tribe, [128], [438].
• Monogamy in Dar Nuba, [4].
• Moral laws, the Mahdi and violation of, [121].
• Moslem law, [322];
  • the killing of priests, [46];
  • and justice, [61]-[2];
  • Sudanese and, [279].
• Mosque at Omdurman, [279], [297].
• Mukran Fort, [126], [147].
• Munzinger Pasha, [189], [191].
• Murat, Saleh Bey and, [265];
  • wells of, [364];
  • Ohrwalder at, [440], [442].
• Murders in the Sudan provinces, [333].
• Musa, sheikh, [396].
• Musallem, Sultan, [234].
• Museum of curios at Omdurman, [213].
• Mussaid, Emir, [258].
• Mustafa Hadal, [166].
• Mustafa Yawer, [64]-[6], [358], [363].

• Nahut, in Kordofan, [240]-[1].
• Naïma Jebel, [3], [223].
• Naser (son of Mek Omar), [32]-[3], [40]-[1].
• Nasri, sheikh, [167]-[8].
• Nejumi, see "Abderrahman Wad en Nejumi."
• Nesim, Major, [11].
• Neufeld, Charles, [233], [263], [345], [348], [353]-[60], [363].
  • in Omdurman, [282].
• News, the Sudanese and, [72]-[3];
• Niam Niam, singers from, [301].
• Nile, see "White Nile," "Blue Nile."
• Noaïa, sheikh, [222]-[3].
• Nuba, country and people of, [3]-[5], [22]-[32], [35], [48]-[9], [50], [95], [102], [112]-[4], [117]-[8], [121], [171]-[2], [177], [186], [197]-[200], [223], [384].
• Nubian desert, crossing the, [433]-[42].
• Nur Angar, [16], [56], [112], [225], [247].
• Nur Bey, [164]-[5].
  • son of, [394].
• Nur Gereifawi, [327], [379], [404];
• Nuri, sheikh, [247].

• Oath of allegiance, sheikhs taking the, [70];
  • evidence on, at Omdurman, [329].
• Obeid, see "El Obeid."
• O'Donovan, Mr. (Daily News correspondent), [80], [96], [101].
• Ohrwalder, Father, visit to Mek Omar, [50];
  • illtreated by a sheikh, [69]-[70];
  • taken before Abdullah, [100];
  • journey to Rahad, [101]-[3];
  • interview with the Mahdi on religion, [109]-[11];
  • treatment of, by various masters, [114]-[7];
  • in Khartum, [149]-[50];
  • farewell to Father Bonomi, [178]-[84];
  • down with fever, [190];
  • sent to Omdurman, [199];
  • and famine in Omdurman, [288];
  • made a prisoner, [351]-[2];
  • departure from Omdurman, [407];
  • plans of escape, [408]-[23];
  • and Lupton, [412]-[3];
  • escape of, to Cairo, [424]-[46];
  • present situation in the Sudan, [447]-[450].
• Omala (tax-gatherers) in the Sudan, [313].
• Omar Kisha (merchant), [267], [397].
• Omar Saleh, [269]-[71].
• Omar Wad Elias, Pasha, [247].
• Omberer, a merchant, [35].
• Omdurman, the Dervish capital, [146], [151], [275], [281], [304], [328], [380];
  • the Mahdi at, [35], [126], [127];
  • surrender of fort at, [131], [142], [177], [222];
  • small-pox in, [154]-[5];
  • and the Mahdi's death, [162]-[3];
  • events in, [202]-[3];
  • hill of, [204];
  • scarcity of small coins in, [210]-[3];
  • museum at, [213];
  • the beit el mal at, [208]-[9];
  • Abyssinians in, [220]-[1];
  • Abu Anga and, [224], [230]-[1];
  • grand review at, [225]-[6];
  • panic in, [248];
  • Osman Digna at, [267]-[8];
  • Mahdi's tomb at, [275]-[9];
  • Khalifa's palace, [280];
  • roads in, [280]-[1];
  • market-place, [282];
  • gallows at, [283], [317]-[8];
  • inhabitants of, [283];
  • population, [283]-[4];
  • 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].
• Onbeïa (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].