The Journals of Major-Gen. C. G. Gordon, C.B., at Kartoum.

INDEX

TO THE

JOURNAL AND APPENDICES.

A.

Abbas, 35;

plan for, to reach Berber, 84;

Gordon and Stewart in the, 151;

reported capture of, with Stewart, 193;

pursued by Fascher, 207;

capture near Dar Djumna, 214;

letter from Mahdi respecting capture of the, 221;

reported safe, 247;

reported at Dongola, 248, 250;

capture of, 272;

list of those on board the, 273;

Gordon thought descent of, a certainty, 274;

Gordon to blame for loss of, 274;

what Mahdi would find on the, 275;

Gordon cannot forget catastrophe to, 279;

under what conditions, went, 279;

treacheries weighed on departure of, 280;

number of Arabs killed by, 282;

sailing boats left with, not arrived at Debbeh, 282;

place and date of  capture of, 285;

a pilot on board the, 286;

certainty of, reaching, 286;

money orders of merchants on, 302;

gun lost in the, 308;

capture of, uncertain, 359;

struck on rock, 361;

Mahdi tells of the capture of, 522.

Abdallah Mohammed Jifarah, 554.

Abdel Kader, Gordon proposes a visit to, 29.

Abdel Kader Pasha, 117, 118, 123, 124;

appointment of, 122, 123, 125;

as Minister of Interior, 291;

appointment of, as Governor-General of Soudan, 461;

arrival of, at Kartoum, 463.

Abd el Kader Ibrahim, 399, 403, 410, 430, 433, 440.

Abdel Kadi, Arabic name of Slatin Bey, 24.

Abderrahhman en Najoomi, 404, 432, 440.

Abdoul Hamid, 190.

Abdullah, Emir, 531;

testimony of, as to Mahdi, 533.

Abdullah Waled Jubira, 129.

Abou Gugliz, and Waled a Goun, 13;

the Mahdi’s spiritual adviser, 24;

begs Gordon to become a Mussulman, 186, 447.

Abou Hamed, expedition advance guard at, 192;

Arabs and gun at, 207, 249;

Stewart captured below, 280;

distance of, from Merowé, 285.

Abou Haraz, defeat of rebels at, 463; 512.

Abou Klea to Metemma, time to get from, 261.

Abou Sitti, 512.

Abu Kerjah, 429, 433, 434.

Abut, repulse of rebels at, 472;

advance on, 474.

Abu-zed, seizure of the ford of, 489.

Abyssinia, treaty between Her Majesty’s Government and, 214;

treaty with, grievance of Gordon as to, 306;

no news in, of Gordon, 517.

Abyssinians, repulse of, at Keran, 337.

Achmet-eff-Awaan, 131;

suspected of incendiarism, 133;

preaches for Mahdi, 133, 134.

Afghanistan, kind of warfare to use in defence of, 90.

Afghans, treachery of, 232.

Ahhmed Bek Ali Jallab, 424.

Ahhmed el Huda, 434, 439.

Ahmed el Mustapha, 450.

Al-ed-Deen, proclamation of, 487.

Al-ed-den and Suleiman, arrival of pashas, 485.

Alexandria, the flight from, 60.

Ali-el-Khowas, 417.

Ali Mohammed Abou Saad Esshentrawi al Abadi, 508.

Ali Othman, 511.

Ambukol, reported advance of troops on, 66;

distance of steamers from, 110.

Ambukol to Metemma a better course, 257;

map by railway engineers, 257, 258;

station forts should be along line from, 257;

Gordon’s scheme for advance from, 257;

road, the road to follow, 261;

wells plentifully supplied on, 261;

no wells much on flank of, 261.

Ambukol to Nesgee, time to get from, 261.

Ammunition, resources of, 44;

amount expended, 72;

amount left, 73;

amount of, in Kartoum, 19th October, 206;

and soldiers with Mahdi when he started, 222;

amount fired at Arabs, 252;

Mahdi bringing up large quantities of, 296;

amount fired, 311, 317;

lost with Hicks, 323;

still in Husseinyeh, 326;

amount with Ferratch Ullah, 331;

daily expenditure of, by Ferratch Ullah, 348;

returns of, 393;

waste of, by Arabs, 393;

and guns, amount of, in Kartoum known to Mahdi, 525.

Ancient Books, no allusion in, to any Mahdi, 414.

Animals, belief in future existence of, 49.

Anti-Slavery Society and the Mahdi, 233, 337, 379.

Apostacy of Mussulmans and Christians, 15.

Arabic, Gordon ignorant of, 198.

Arabi Pasha’s private secretary, 77;

trial of, 125, 133.

Arab school children, and their schools, 7;

Gordon’s affection for, 16.

Arabs, reported scarcity of food with, 15;

ill-treatment of Greeks and other prisoners by, 16;

Greek came in from, 18;

distinction between and Rebels, 22;

attacked by steamer Towfikia, 30;

in camp near Giraffe, 41;

foraging party of, 41;

fight between Gordon’s men and, 47;

retreating towards White Nile, 47;

desertion from, 63;

expecting an attack, 71;

small parties of men create dismay with, 89;

attack before dawn, 89;

no quarter given by, 98;

firing on steamers, 104;

have no conscience, 105;

attack on village on White Nile by, 121;

badly off for water, 125;

means of forcing to retreat, 126;

to be well defeated, 126;

amount of ammunition of, 129;

average daily number of deserters from, 134;

defeat of, 136;

presence of Gordon exasperating to, 152;

going towards Giraffe, 153;

have captured gun of Katarif, 166;

prevent desertions to Gordon, 171;

meditate coming to old Dem, 174;

perplexed, 186;

policy in not answering fire of, 187;

fighting force of, 187;

Sakkeyer, meditate raid, 192;

policy in letting people go to, 198;

have not occupied Halfeyeh, 201;

few only at Faki Mustapha, 201;

Gordon does not like killing, 203;

capture of two boats of Stewart’s expedition by, 205;

officials, hedging with the, 208;

death among, from dysentery, 221;

number of, with Mahdi when he started, 222;

and mirrors, 222;

telegraph cut at Bourré by, 222;

either eating, praying, sleeping, or sick, 223;

have divided their camp, 224;

take rifles from regulars, 224;

ferry across White Nile by, 225;

best place of attacking, 230;

none in arms between Wad-el-Medinet and Sennaar, 231;

should not be helped when wounded, 232;

belief of, 232;

leaders of, prime movers, 232;

meditate

attack on Omdurman, 244;

passing Blue Nile at Giraffe, 244;

ordered by Mahdi to congregate at Kartoum, 246;

reconnoitring party of, in ruins of Omdurman, 246;

reported removal of captured money by, 247;

at Shoboloha, 247;

positions of, 249;

amount of rounds of ammunition fired at, 252;

capture of three, by the Baggaras, 255;

force of, towards north, 258;

driven back to Giraffe, 258;

itinerary of, 261;

cannot assemble on banks from Ambukol to Metemma, 261;

have given no peace for one hundred and thirty-three days, 261;

camel transport depends on temper of, 262;

doubt holiness of Mahdi, 264;

continue to desert Mahdi, 268;

firing on, forbidden, 270;

presence of steamers among, 279;

number of, killed by Abbas, 282;

party of, at Sennaar, 282;

Stewart’s feeling as to the, 286;

have found out weak point, 301;

unconcerned as to advance of expedition, 303;

want to fight direct, 306;

lost heavily at Bourré, 306;

reconnoitring party feared, 311;

at Goba, 313;

confidence of, 313;

do not assist one another, 317;

in ditch at Omdurman, 320;

firing on lines at Bourré, 321;

coming across to Goba, 321;

declare to enter town, 322;

firing at Moggrim fort, 324;

ferry of, across White Nile, 324;

may run away, but not probable, 326;

futility of firing of, 327;

capture of man and letters by, 328;

bad firing of, 330;

at Giraffe and El foun, 334;

keep black troops on short rations, 334;

fire from Bourré, White Nile, and Omdurman, 336;

settled down in old by dem, 341;

Kartoum hemmed in by, 343;

made a pyramid of skulls from Hicks’s army, 344;

repulsed three times by expedition, 347;

distance of from city, 351;

collected at Halfeyeh, 354;

scarcity of, at Omdurman, 355;

retreat of, 356, 357;

and capture of Husseinyeh, 357;

at Tuti, 357;

fire on Ismailia, by, 358;

and Shendy, 359;

want of ammunition by, 362;

strength of on north side, 364;

and the bombardment of Palace, 366;

“Personality” of battery of, 366, 370;

and battery of Goba, 368;

fire on Palace, 369;

mishap to gun of, 370;

at Goba, 370;

another battle with, 375;

one of the, throwing dust in the air, 376;

shelling Palace, 378;

battles with, 381;

will be dispersed by troops, 382;

at Goba “silent”, 387;

innocuous, 388;

on bank of Blue Nile, 388;

short of ammunition, 391;

European directing guns of, 392;

their waste of ammunition, 393;

fire on Palace slackened, 395;

daring and recklessness of, 445;

appeal to loyalty of, 468;

disaffection among Kababish, 480.

Armageddon, 173.

Arms, amount of, in Kartoum, 19th Oct., 206.

Army, Her Majesty’s, in the desert, 168, 169.

Arrests by Gordon, 188;

more, 192;

perplexed about, 194, 195;

more arrests, 195;

public opinion not dissatisfied with, 197.

Artillery not needed in Soudan, 83;

fire, Gordon on, 383.

Ata Aga, 455.

Atbara Valley, party moving down, 207.

Attack, time to, is the dawn, 89.

Austrian Consul, 199;

telegram from, to Gordon, 546.

Awaan, Arabi’s clerk, 140;

statement of, 193;

secretary of Arabi, 250;

in prison, 250.

Azotus, 143.

B.

Bab Bekr el Mek, 442.

Backsheesh to troops, 343.

Baggaras, the capture of three Arabs by, 255;

Arabs, desertion of, 282.

Bahr Gazelle and Equator garrisons, 85, 235;

and Mahdi, 380;

in possession of Mahdi, 530.

Bairam, 115.

Baird, Mr., 54.

Baker, Tokar and, business, 162;

Commander, has best opera glasses, 265;

Sir S., letters received by Gordon from, 274;

news from, 283;

and Kitchener, 360;

auxiliary force under, 338;

Sir Samuel, 110.

Balaklava, price of cheese at, 224.

Band fired on by Arabs, 383.

Bara, defeat of rebels at, 465;

state of the garrison of, 471;

surrender of, 481.

Baring, 55;

and troops for Berber, 57;

offended Cuzzi, 57, 147, 150;

and telegrams from Gordon, 165;

would not send troops to Berber, 227;

amount authorised by, to Gordon, 242;

would never laugh, 306;

money promised to Gordon by, 308;

bumping up to Kartoum, 360, 361, 362;

to Egerton, 367;

at Metemma, 367;

without Firman from Towfik, 368;

subordinate to Towfik, 371;

and Gordon, 373;

and Austrian Consul’s telegram, 546.

Barère, 338.

Bashi Bazouks, of little use, 87;

Arab sufferings at hands of, 90;

for Berber, 116;

robbers, 116;

problem what to do with, 314;

outcry for rations by, 345.

Bear-baiting garden, back again in, 171.

Bedouins, the way to deal with, 87.

Believers, true, 419.

Beloochees and Sikhs, 189.

Berber, captured steamers at, 14;

betrayal of, by Cuzzi, 22;

Arabs aware of expedition to, 22;

mentioned, 25;

miserable defence of, 35;

desired surrender of, by Gordon, 36;

could have been saved by Zubair, 46;

Cuzzi, 57;

return of Saphia and Mansowrah from, 72;

fifty nuggars at, 73;

arranging attack on, 76;

plan for capture of, 83;

plan for reaching, 84;

soldiers for, on arrival of British at, 116;

occupied, 136;

arrival of Turks at Berber, 137;

and Baker, 162;

known to have fallen in March, 165;

troops advanced towards, 207;

three distinct parties moving on, 207;

route to Suakin from, 225-227;

Graham willing to send men to, 227;

to Dar Djumna from, and back on camel in one day, 247, 248;

must be captured by expeditionary force, 248, 249;

a detachment from Metemma should be sent to Berber, 257;

expedition ought to have captured, 260;

Stewart escorted past, 280;

fell through Zubair not being with Gordon, 301;

caravan with money from, 347;

reported taken, 350;

four steamers reported at, 351;

money at, taken to Mahdi, 359;

reported surrender of, 385, 387.

Berzate Bey, his death a misfortune, 253.

Biscuit, large amount stolen, 270;

and dhoora in magazine, 271;

amount of, stolen in a year, 314;

worth of stolen, 315;

given to the poor, 354.

Bizemont, M. de, 111.

Black regulars, Gordon’s affection for, 295.

Black soldiers, the equanimity of, 99.

Blanc, M. le, 111.

Blockade, a second, 166;

of Kartoum, ninth month of, 304;

greatest battle of second, 317.

Blotting paper, Journal written on, 249.

Blue Nile, Arabs at, 94;

operation on, 231;

Arabs driven off right bank of, by steamers, 301.

Blunt, Wilfrid, 133, 195.

Boatman from Berber, 247;

a liar, 255.

Boats, two abandoned and captured, 247.

Bogie, hopes the Mahdi will prove a, 197.

Bondholders of Egypt, 235.

Bordeen struck, 105, 106, 108;

drove back horsemen on Blue Nile, 121;

up Blue Nile, 130, 146, 152;

ordered to White Nile, 157;

for Halfeyeh, 170;

down the river robbing, 174;

back from Shoboloha, 176;

ordered to attack Arabs, 184;

cavalry sortie from, 190;

below Kerowé, 197;

up the White Nile, 202, 203;

for Shendy, 206;

post came in from, 272;

left for Metemma, 280;

and news of Hicks’s defeat, 348;

arrival of, 358;

protection of, 365;

sent down, 371;

struck by shells, 385, 387, 395;

to bring Journal, 394.