Index. 



117 



Rafts on White Nile, 41. 

 Railway, the Desert, 17. 



River, essential to country and 

 inhabitants, 40. 



Route from Khartoum to Kawa, 



38. 



Sachareet, 91. 



Saier Prison at Omdurman, 28. 

 Sakieh, 15. 



Sandgrouse shooting, 79- 

 Sand-spouts, 100. 

 Sandstorms, 98. 

 Scenery on the Nile, 16. 

 Servants, 33, 73. 

 Shadoof, 15. 

 Shrike's nest, 51. 

 Shyness of natives, 56. 

 Soudanese troops, 26. 

 Spinning cotton and hair, 56. 



Square, the Great, at Omdurman, 

 26. 



Stations on the Desert Railway, 



Tameness of Birds, 62, 64. 

 Temperature, 73. 

 Trapping animals, 62. 

 Vegetation, 50, 52. 

 Villages, 54. 

 Vultures, 30. 

 Wady Haifa, 17. 

 Warbler, a new antail, 76. 

 Warbler, Bush, habits of, 69. 



Warbler, Pallid, abundance of, 

 68. 



Warblers, Reed and Marsh, 

 resemblance of, 70. 



Water, the value of, 39. 

 Weaving goat's hair, 56. 

 Wedding ceremonies, 94. 



Whitethroat, Lesser, visiting 

 tent, 62. 



Whitethroat, Lesser, abundance 

 of, 68. 



Wood cutting, 52 



