LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS TO FACE PAGE 1. NEUFELD AS FOUND BY THE SIRDAR . . Frontispiece 2. AN ARAB GUIDE 8 3. THE KHALEEFA'S EUNUCHS AT ATTENTION .... 37 4. THE KHALEEFA'S TENDER MERCIES 45 5. SHEIKH ED DIN'S EUNUCH IN HIS MASTER'S MARRIAGE-JIBBEH 64 6. WRITING UNDER DIFFICULTIES 77 7. A GROUP OF PRISONERS ...... . . 84 8. LEARNING THE MAHDI'S RATIB 94 9. IDRIS-ES-SAIER ... 103 10. CATARINA 114 11. A FLOGGING BY ORDER OF THE KHALEEFA . . . 129 12. MEAL-TIME IN THE SAIER 143 13. MOUSSA DAOUD EL KANAGA 154 14. MANKARIOUS EFFENDI WITH GUIDES 164 15. UMM ES SHOLE AND TWO CHILDREN 189 16. SAID BEY GUMAA 203 17. FAUZI PASHA IN DERVISH DRESS 218 1 8. NEUFELD'S HUT IN THE SAIER, SHOWING THE FAMOUS ANVIL 223 19. ONOOR ISSA 226 20. POWDER-MACHINES 236 21. A GROUP — FROM PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN AT THE FEAST OF BEIRAM, 1899 242 22. NEUFELD DOUBLY FETTERED 252