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