5ABAHI Sabahi, a rebel chief, i 191. Said Pasha, son of Mohammed AH, i 103: state of the public finances at the time of his death, i 104, 220, 224. Said Pasha, cowardice and treachery of, iii 137; execution of, iii 141.

Sala, Count della, ii 206.

Saladiii, becomes sultan, t 9. Salah Aga, relieves Sennar, ii 227. Salt tax, the, 1 S6.

Sarras, expedition starts from, iii 242.

Sartorius, Colonel, fortifies Suakim, ii 252.

Sauer, Mr., secretary at the Cape, »» 35-Scimitar, use of the, i 14. Sebastiani, Colonel, Napoleon's agent, 127. Seckendorf, Major Baron von, ii 241. Selim the Third, i 27. Sennar, province of, i 106; a. stronghold of slavery, i 107 ; Gordon at town, 1 166; threatened by the Mahdi's force, ii 223; relieved by Salah Aga, ii 227. Senoussi, £1, a rival Mahdi, iv 242, 261. Serapeum, ii 107. Seymour, Lieutenant, killed, iv 252. Seymour, Vice-admiral Sir Frederick Beauchamp Paget, commands the fleet at Alexandria, i 261; bombards the city, i 266, 271 ; moves against Ramieh, ii 4 ; made Lord Alcester, ii 116. Shatkeyeh tribe, the, iii 217. Shakka, Gordon at, i 178, 201; Suleiman's emissaries shot at, i 204. Shakool, Arabs routed at, iv 257. Shaw, Sergeant-major, killed at Kassassin, ii 47. Sheeis, sect of the Moslems, ii 2x4. Sheikh Hoghali, patron saint of Khartfim, ii 211. Shendy, Gordon arrives at, iii 97; proposed railway from, to Debbeh, iii aao; bombarded, iv 93, 95. Sherif Pasha, forms a ministry, i 250.

Sherri Lsland, iv 209. Shibeen el Kaiiater, ii 108.

Shilluk country, the, 1 105. Shoobra, a summer palace, i 95. Shoonah or government warehouse, the, i 86. Shukook Pass, the, iv 151, 209.

Sienkiewicz, M., consul-general, i 244.

Sinkat, besieged by OMnan Digina, ii 244 ; condition of the garrison, ii 253 ; fall of. and massacre of the garrison, ii 266; a summer station for troops, iv 239. Slavery, its inHuence on Egi-pt, i 9; Khartum becomes the mart for the slave-trade, i 105: exertions of Gessi to suppress tlie trade, i 108 ; Dr.

Vates* description of a slave-market, i no; M. (iirnud on, i iii; Ismail Pasha's endeavours to suppress the trade, i 121: its extent, i 123; horrors of slave-hunting, i 125; punishment decreed against slave-lnmting chiefs, i 162; the question in the Soudan, i 173: horrors of, i 188, 206; Gordon's INDEX.

estimate of the extent of the traffic, i 209; Gessi's success in hunting down the slave-bands, i 2iz; Gordon's modified views on, ill gz ; danger of its increase, iii 129.

Smith, Sir Sydney, i 16, 19. Smith-Dorien, Lieutenant, ii 21, rzi.

Sobat, post established at, i 149. Soudan, boundaries of the, i 4, 52 ; divisions of, i 52; its tribes, i 53: slavetrade in the, i iii, 173: its condition in 1864, t i2o; divided into provinces, i 136; financial position in 1878, i 185: proposed railway in, i 187 ; Lord Dufferin advises Egyptian government to get rid of, ii 207 ; its vast dimensions and resources, ii 207; its two great divisions, ii 208; its races, ii 20S : position of affairs in, ii 209 ; caravan routes in, ii 218; proposed evacuation of, ii 255; Gordon's advice respecting, iii 11; he concurs in policy of abandoning, iii 56 ; his plan for managing, iii 83; his hopes regarding, iii 90; his assurances to the people of, iii 94; Zebehr proposed to be sent to, iii 105; Gordon's opinion against holding, iii 126; his notes to Sir £. Baring concerning, Iii 166; religious habits of the people, Iii 231; ignorance of the people in, HI 232 ; policy of British government respecting, iv 2; preparations for sending more forces to, iv 168 ; war estimates, iv 169 ; policy of abandoning the, iv 240; plan of campaign against the Mahdi and Osman Digma, iv 241; end of campaign in, iv 258 ; withdrawal of troops from, iv 259. Speke, Captain, i 119.

St. Croix, Austrian mission at, i 150.

Stephenson, General Sir F., iv 261.

Stephenson, Robert, the engineer, i 225.

Stewart, Col., corroborates Gordon's views on affairs in the Soudan, iii 52; his excursion from Khartum up the White Nile, iii 130; his murder by Suleiman Wad Gamr, Iii 345; details by Hussein the stoker, iii 246 ; information obtained by Major Kitchener, iii 247: articles belonging to him found at Birti, iv 150: the house where he and his party were murdered, iv 213; inspection of his wrecked steamer, iv 213.

Stewart, General Sir Herbert, at Kassassin, ii 45 ; to lead the force across the Bayuda desert, iii 218, 265; takes the command at Dongola, iii 241 ; meets Major Gough at Dal, iii 244; his interview with the mudir of Dongola, iii 258; at Korti, iii 262; starts from Korti, iii 269; iv 5; telegram of his fight at Abu-Klea wells, iii 270; entire force under, iv 7; his instructions, iv 9 : his general order after Abu-Klea, iv 27; critical position of his force, iv 34 : a night march, iv 47; the enemy again in sight, iv 49; his force attacked, and Sir Herbert severely wounded, iv 51 ; unable to j 271 TAXATION act, iv 89 : hopes of his recovery, iv 99; his death, iv 201; testimonies to his high qualities, iv 202 ; his early history and militaiy career, iv 203. Stewart and Power, massacre of, iii 169.

Stone, General, chief of the staff of the Egyptian army, i 249, Strickland, Sir Edward, iv 174, Stuart, Mr. Villiers, il 174, iSo.

Stuart-Wortley, Lieut., with Sir C. Wilson at Khartum, iv 104. Suakim, description of, ii 217; panic at, ii 245, 253 ; gendarmerie ordered to, Ii 251; defeat of the Egyptian forces, ii 252; the cadi joins the Mahdi, 11255; the town declared In a state of siege, Ii 265 ; railway proposed to Berber, ill 193 ; the proposal abandoned, iii 195 ; Indian troops to be sent to, iv 131; threatened by Osman Digma, iv 169; improvements at, iv 232; proposed railway to Berber, iv 232 ; insanitary condition of, iv 236; attack on the camp at, iv 237 ; General Graham's campaign from, iv 247.

Suez, occupied by Admiral Hewetc, ii 64 ; harbour constructed at, i 228. Suez Canal, the, i 224 ; beginning of the work, i 226; Lsmail Pasha threatens to stop it, i 226 : cost of the work, i 227; taken possession of by the British, ii 21, 29; agreement of the great powers for its protection, ii 64; Arabl's efforts to block it, ii 71 ; its importance, ii 94 ; traffic on, ii 95 ; beginning of operations, ii 96 ; the voyage from Port Said to Ismallia, ii 99; method of excavating, ii loo; proposed neutralization of, ii 132; Lord Granville's circular note on, il 17X.

Sufeit, iv 251. Suleiman, son of Zebehr, heads the slave-dealers, i 169 ; his treacherous character, i 176; sent to Bahr-el-Ghazal, i 176; his revolt put down by Gessi, i 189: his attack on Gessi, i 195: is defeated and pursued, i 197; captured by Gessi and shot, i 210. Suleiman Bey SamI, arrested, ii 146; execution of, Ii 165. Suleiman Wad Gamr, his murder of Colonel Stewart and his party. Hi 245; meets Lekalik at Salamat, iv 146; a proposal to entrap him, iv 150; bis property destroyed, iv 153. Sultan Pacha, supports the British, ii 50: his gratitude to Lord DufTeriu, ii 192.

Taka, province of, i 106. Talahaiviyeh steamer wrecked, iv 113. Talbot, Colonel, his account of Abu-Klea, iv 23; attacked whilst escorting the wounded to Abu-Klea, iv 198; is reinforced by Colonel Stanley Clarke, iv 199. Tamni, battle of, ii 284; captured by the " Friendlies," iv 263. Tambouk, iv 240, 257. Tantah, town of, ii 106. Taxation in Egypt, i 86, 230; exemption