346 THE SECRET OF SAHARA: KUFARA 



Arabs, European policy towards, 

 63 

 how British prestige has dwin- 

 dled among. 111 

 responsive sympathy of, 300 

 their distrust and suspicion of 



strangers, 204, 206 

 their estimate of gold, l66 

 tiffs with the Sudanese, 130, 



135, 151 

 (see also Senussi) 

 Arida, 80 



Asayad, zawia of, a visit to, 214 

 "Asida," and of what it is com- 

 posed, 261 

 Aujela, 19, 88 



author's reception in, 94 et seq. 

 ekhwan in, 94 

 Axilad Bu Hassan, 151 

 Auwaghirs, an encampment of, 1 



horsemanship of, 7 

 Awardel, 247 



Badr, Sheikh, 206, 207 

 Bahet Hafan, 292 

 Ball, Dr., Director of Desert Sur- 

 veys of Egypt, xii 

 Barca, 213, 229 

 Basha el Ghariam, Sharuf, 4 

 Bashar, blind poet of Aleppo, 84 

 Bazama family, plots of, x, 163, 



164, 165 

 Bazama, Hasan, 240 

 Bazama, Husein, 240 

 Beduin, feminine attire described, 

 44 

 idea of "comfort," 231, 234 

 ignorance of distance, 84 

 protest against author's visit, 93 

 Beduins, and the continued ex- 

 istence of the Mahdi, l67, 

 215 

 appetites of, 52 

 fanaticism of, 56 

 fatalism of, 254 



Beduins, friction with the blacks, 

 124 



hospitality of, 71 



loyalty of, 62 



Sidi Idris and the, 110 

 simple life of, 84 



their fear of black slaves, 81 



tribute to generosity of, 36 

 Ben Ali es Senussi, Sidi, 151, 204 



home of, 293 



important historical letter from. 

 221, 338-340 

 Benghazi, 1, 2 



death of Korayim at, 18 



en fete, 5 



festas at, 2 



Government House at, 2 



hospitality at, 18 



in suspense at, 19 



Rohlfs' escape to, 149 



sale of ivory in, 109 

 Bir Mareg, 80 

 Bir Msus, 87 

 Bir Nasrani, 149, "^^55 

 Bir Rassam, 73 



wells of, 74 

 "Black bears," the, ISO 

 Boema, 17, 158, 192 



a visit to, 210 

 Boema-Farafra route, the, 254» 

 Bornu, 119 

 Brahsa tribe, the, 206 

 British prestige, loss of. 111 

 Bu Alia, 288, 289 

 Bu Badr, Sheikh Mansur, ix, 176, 



181, 183, 184 

 "Bucksumat," definition of, 274 

 Bu Fadil, 195 



Bu Gemira, Sidi Yadem, 295 

 Bu Guettin, Bukr, 17, 149 

 Bu Hassan, 151 

 Bu Helayig, Mabruk, 206 

 Bu Korayim, Hamid, 149, 206, 

 207, 217 



