CONTENTS.

Chap. vage 1. Position of the Country ; Borders Rivers, Soil, and Climate .... 1 II. History . . . . .11 III. Government..... 27 IV. Habits and Customs . . . .44 V. Clxaracter of the People . . . 107 VI. The Bakkara. (Nomadic Tribes.) . .118 VII. The Kubbabeesh . . . .132 VIII. Dar-Hammer . . . . .142 IX. Tribes bordering on Kordofan, Shilluk Nuba, Takele. etc. . . . . 147 X. Religion . . . . .184 XI. Diseases . . . . .192 XII. The Troops . . . . .199 XIII. Products . . . . . 217 XIV. The Capital of Kordofan; Lobeid . . 258 XV. Commerce ..... 279 XVI. Mehemed Ali's Slave-hunts in general . . 305 XVII. Description of a Slave-hunt in the years 1838 and 1839 ..... 326 XVIII. Information concerning the Course of the Bahr-Abiad (White Nile).— Antiquities of Kordofan.— Bandanianiam . . 345 XIX. On the kingdom of Darfour . . . 350