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INTRODUCTION.

FATHER OHRWALDER'S JOURNEY TO THE SUDAN. PAGE Description of Kordofan and Dar Nuba--The Mission Station at Delen 1

THE MAHDI AND HIS RISE TO POWER.

The rise of the Mahdi--Early successes--Personal appearance --His Khalifas described--Military organization--Makes new laws--He summons El Obeid to surrender 6

FATHER OHRWALDER AND HIS COMPANIONS TAKEN CAPTIVE.

The storm rises in Dar Nuba--The Baggara begin to raid-- Khojur Kakum of Delen--Mek Omar besieges Delen--The slave guard deserts the Mission--The priests and nuns surrender-- They are sent to the Mahdi 22

Description of El Obeid--Said Pasha's system of defence-- The Mahdi's followers encircle the town--Townspeople desert to the Mahdi--Unsuccessful attack on Government buildings --Dervishes driven off with loss of 10,000 men--The missionaries brought before the Mahdi--Threatened with death--Preparations for the execution--Reprieved at the last moment--The Mahdi's camp described--Death of some of the missionaries--Illness of remainder 34

THE SIEGE OF EL OBEID.

Terrible sufferings of the besieged--The Kababish--Fall of Bara--Fall of El Obeid--The Mahdi enters the town--Fate of the El Obeid Mission--Cold-blooded murder of the brave defenders--The Dervishes live a life of ease in El Obeid-- The Mahdi makes laws--He sends out proclamations--Prestige increased by capture of town--News from Khartum--Bonomi and Ohrwalder summoned before the Mahdi--The interview 52

THE MAHDI'S VICTORY OVER HICKS PASHA.

The European captives learn that General Hicks is advancing--Slatin Bey's defence of Darfur--His heroism-- The Mahdi prepares to resist Hicks--The march of the Hicks Expedition--Extracts from the diary of Major Herlth--Colonel Farquhar's gallantry at Rahad--Gustav Klootz deserts to the Mahdi--Klootz's interview with the Mahdi in which Ohrwalder and Bonomi act as interpreters--The expedition advances towards Shekan--Is surrounded and annihilated--Description of the battle--The Mahdi victor of Kordofan 72

THE MAHDI'S TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO EL OBEID.

Fall of Darfur--Slatin surrenders--The Mahdi's divinity credited after the annihilation of Hicks--King Adam of Tagalla--Stambuli's kindness to the European captives-- Gordon writes to the Mahdi--Power's letter--The sisters seized and distributed amongst the emirs--They are tortured--The missionaries turned into slaves--The terrible journey to Rahad--The Greeks come to the help of the sisters--The proclamation concerning the treatment of priests and hermits by Mohammedans--The Mahdi at Rahad-- Ohrwalder's interviews with the Mahdi concerning religion --The Dervishes attack the Nubas 91

FATHER OHRWALDER'S VIEWS OF GORDON'S MISSION.

Ohrwalder describes his treatment at the hands of various masters--The Nubas surrender and afterwards desert--News from Khartum--The capture of the English mail--Its arrival at the Mahdi's camp--The Mahdi decides to advance on Khartum--Brief review of events in Khartum and Berber--Ohrwalder's views on Gordon's mission--The Mahdi sets out for Khartum--Mohammed Ali Pasha's defeat and death--Colonel Stewart, Mr. Power, and others leave Khartum in ss. "Abbas"--Description of their wreck and treacherous murder 114

THE SIEGE AND FALL OF KHARTUM.

The surrender of Omdurman fort--Gordon's dispositions for defence--His great personal influence--The night before the assault--The attack and entry of the Dervishes --Gordon's death--The adventures of Domenico Polinari-- The massacre in Khartum--How most of the Europeans died --Ruthless cruelty and bloodshed--The fate of the wives and daughters of Khartum--Ohrwalder's views on the situation in Khartum and the chances of relief by the British Expeditionary Force--His description of the town three months after the fall 131

THE MAHDI'S LAST DAYS.

Ohrwalder's criticisms on certain events connected with the defence of Khartum--The Sudan devastated by small-pox --The Mahdi gives way to a life of pleasure--Description of his harem life--The Mahdi sickens and dies--The effect on his followers--The Khalifa Abdullah succeeds--Party strife and discord--Abdullah prevails--Events in Sennar and Kassala 152

Ohrwalder continues to describe his personal experiences -- Mahmud the emir of El Obeid--His unsuccessful attempts to entrap the Nubas--The arrival of Olivier Pain in El Obeid--His motives in joining the Mahdi--His journey towards Omdurman--His sad fate--Lupton Bey arrives at El Obeid from the Bahr el Ghazal--He is sent to Omdurman and thrown into chains--Life in El Obeid--The escape of Father Bonomi--Ohrwalder's solitude--The death of the Khojur Kakum 169

REVOLT AGAINST THE DERVISHES.

The black soldiers of the old Sudan army--They revolt against the Dervishes in El Obeid--And march off to Dar Nuba--The emir Mahmud pursues and is slain--Ohrwalder quits El Obeid for Omdurman--Zogal and Abu Anga at Bara 189

OHRWALDER'S IMPRESSIONS OF OMDURMAN.

Ohrwalder's arrival in Omdurman--His first impressions of the Dervish capital--Khalifa Abdullah's intentions to conquer Egypt--Wad Suleiman of the beit el mal--Wad Adlan succeeds--Gordon's clothes, medals, &c.--Adlan reorganizes the beit el mal--The slave market, museum, mint, and system of coinage--Counterfeit coining--The lithograph press--The Khalifa's system of justice 204

THE KHALIFA DECIDES TO CONQUER ABYSSINIA.

Events subsequent to the fall of Khartum--Capture of Gedaref and Galabat--Dervishes defeated by Abyssinians at Galabat--Abu Anga's victorious expedition to Tagalla --His triumphal return to Omdurman--The Khalifa's grand review--Destruction of the Gehena tribe--The Khalifa decides to send Abu Anga's army to conquer Abyssinia--The battle of Dabra Sin--Abu Anga sacks Gondar--The victorious Dervishes return to Galabat-- Rejoicings at Omdurman 216

KING JOHN OF ABYSSINIA KILLED IN BATTLE.

Destruction of the Kababish tribe and death of Saleh Bey--Events in Darfur--Revolt of Abu Gemaizeh--His death and destruction of his army--Rabeh Zubeir--King Theodore's son visits Omdurman--The conspiracy of "Sayidna Isa"--Death of Abu Anga--King John of Abyssinia attacks Galabat--Success of Abyssinians, but the king killed--Victory turned to defeat--The king's head sent to Omdurman 232

DEFEAT OF NEJUMI AT TOSKI, AND OF OSMAN DIGNA AT TOKAR.

The Khalifa's intentions regarding Egypt--Wad en Nejumi despatched north--Various operations on the Egyptian frontier--Battle of Toski--Defeat and death of Nejumi-- Subsequent events in Dongola--Osman Digna's operations against Sawakin--Is defeated at Tokar--Emin Pasha and events in Equatoria--Recent events in Uganda and Unyoro 254

THE FAMINE AT OMDURMAN--1888-1889.

Ohrwalder describes Omdurman--The Mahdi's tomb, and how it was built--Pilgrimage to Mecca forbidden--A description of the great mosque--The Khalifa's palace--The markets-- The population--The Khalifa's tyrannical rule--The terrible famine of 1888-1889--Awful scenes and sufferings--The plague of locusts 273

THE KHALIFA AND HIS GOVERNMENT.

The Khalifa's system of government--His household--An outline of his character--His system of prayers in the mosque--His visions and dreams--His espionage system--His household troops--His great activity and circumspection-- The great Friday review described--The emigration of the Baggara and western tribes to Omdurman--The flight of Sheikh Ghazali--Management of the beit el mal--System of taxation 293

The revolt of the Batahin tribe--Revolt suppressed with appalling cruelty--Wholesale executions--Method of hanging--Punishment by mutilation--The execution of Abdel Nur--Trade with Egypt--Wad Adlan the emin beit el mal--His imprisonment and death 315

SOCIAL LIFE AT OMDURMAN.

System of public security and justice in Omdurman--The court of small causes--Bribery and corruption--The story of the slave and her mistress--How the Khalifa deals with quarrelsome persons--Thieves and pickpockets-- The story of Zogheir--Usurers and their trade--The chief of police--Brigandage--Disproportion of males to females in Omdurman--How the Khalifa overcame the difficulty-- Immorality--The marriage ceremony 328

THE KHALIFA'S TREATMENT OF THE WHITE CAPTIVES.

Description of the prison, or "Saier"--The "Abu Haggar" --The imprisonment of Charles Neufeld--Terrible sufferings of the prisoners--Domenico Polinari--The danger of corresponding with the European prisoners-- Neufeld threatened with death--He is given charge of the saltpetre pits--The fate of Sheikh Khalil, the Egyptian envoy--The Khalifa's treatment of the "Whites"--Exile to the White Nile 344

LUPTON BEY AND THE AMMUNITION.

The Khalifa's powder and ammunition begin to fail--Lupton Bey makes fulminate--Unsuccessful attempts to make powder --Yusef Pertekachi at last succeeds--The explosion in the powder factory 366

AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE IN THE MAHDI'S KINGDOM.

Remarks on the agriculture and commerce of the Mahdiist kingdom--A sandstorm in Omdurman--The paucity of cattle-- System of taxation on imports--Provincial beit el mals-- Local manufactures--Slavery and the slave-markets--Torture of slaves 376

THE BAGGARA MASTERS OF THE SUDAN.

Relations between Abdullah and the rival Khalifas-- Mahdiism practically dead--The Khalifa's son Osman--His marriage to Yakub's daughter--His intentions regarding the succession--The Baggara and the Aulad-Belad--The Baggara masters of the Sudan--Examples of their tyranny --Emigration of the Rizighat tribe--Hostility between the Khalifa's and the late Mahdi's households--The Ashraf conspiracy--Witchcraft--The dispute between the Khalifas--Riots in Omdurman--The Mahdi's widows 387

PREPARATIONS FOR THE FLIGHT.

Ohrwalder forms plans for escape--The fate of other Europeans attempting to fly--Stricter surveillance-- Ohrwalder's means of livelihood--Letters from Cairo-- The faithful Ahmed Hassan discloses his plan--Archbishop Sogaro--Miseries of captivity in Omdurman--Death of Sister Concetta Corsi--Preparations for flight 408

ON CAMELS ACROSS THE GREAT NUBIAN DESERT.

Father Ohrwalder and Sisters Venturini and Chincarini escape--The ride for life--The rencontre with the Dervish guard near Abu Hamed--Alarm of the party--The journey across the great Nubian desert--Five hundred miles on camel-back in seven days--Arrival at the Egyptian outpost at Murat--Safe at last--Arrival in Cairo 424

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

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