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 Kordo-

fan.— Bandanianiam . . 345

XIX. On the kingdom of Darfour . . . 350