INDEX AND GLOSSARY

Ababda tribe, 25

’Abd el Atif, camel driver, 200; magician, 271

’Abd el Qadr el Jilany, founder of Qadria dervishes, 134

’Abd el Wahad, Sheykh, 64, 67, 73, 74, 243

’Abd er Rahman Musa Said, 25, 27, 34, 47, 76, 85, 86, 104, 105, 116, 117, 122, 124, 132, 147, 148, 151-156, 161-192, 196, 199, 203, 206, 217, 234, 236, 238-240

’Abd es Salem ben Mashish, founder of the Mashishia dervishes, 132

’Abdul Ati, 135

’Abdul Hamid, Sultan of Turkey, 106, 127

’Abdulla abu Reesha, 134, 136, 148-155, 164-182, 190-192, 196, 199

’Abdulla Kahal, Senussi agent in Cairo, 245

Abeh ’Abdulla, 182

Abeshr, 296-298

Abu el Hul, sphinx-like rock, 36

Abu Moharik dunes, 31, 84, 203

Abu Naim Oasis, 304

Adam, 256; Sheykh, tree of, 263

Afrit, spirit, ghost, 113, 140-143, 187-189

Agaba, el, pass, 305

Agal, Hobbles, 33

Ahmed el Biskri, the Senussi Mahdi’s double, 108, 109

Ahmed el Mawhub, Sheykh, 62-74, 106, 144, 147, 149, 242

Ahmed esh Sheriff, head sheykh of the Senussia, 239

Aid el Mahmal, festival in Kharga, 258

’Ain, a spring or well, in the oases an old—“Roman”—well

’Ain Amur, 33, 36, 202, 215, 232, 243, 246, 294, 305, 310, 311, 315

’Ain Ebsay, 229

’Ain el Agwa, 231, 246, 304

’Ain el Baytha, 296

’Ain el Belad, 229

’Ain el Hagar, 326

’Ain el Jemala, 37

’Ain el Massim, 262

’Ain el Wady, 304

’Ain Embarres, 29, 137, 202, 215

’Ain Guettara, 335

’Ain Hamur, 29, 137

’Ain Khalif, 231, 246, 304

’Ain Sheykh Murzuk, 225, 230, 231, 304, 319

’Ain Um Debadib, 136, 137, 310, 312, 315, 316

Aiyub, Sultans of Turkey, 260

Albinos, 261

’Alem, a landmark, generally a pile of stones, 85-88, 96, 112, 116

Alexandria, 304

Algeria, libraries in, 19

Algerian Sahara, 18

’Ali Dinar, Sultan of Darfur, 199, 210

’Ali Kashuta, 44

Amaim tribe, 332

Antiquities, 29, 32, 37, 50, 136, 137, 206, 223, 263, 298, 299, 314-316

Ants, 286

Arabia, 299, 306

Arabic language, 22

“Arab telegraph,” 21

Araj, oasis, 302, 304

Aratha, 296

Architecture, 42, 43, 49, 65, 313, 314, 318

Ardeb, 300 lbs.

Arkenu, 321

Asara, 296, 298, 306

Asses, wild, 303

Assiut, 26, 128, 132, 196, 197, 199, 222, 243, 245, 304, 305

Astronomy, 118, 119

Aswan, 305

Atlas mountains, 301

Atrun, el, 300, 303

Auguries, 249

Aujila, 304, 306

Awazim tribe, 332

Ayb, snub, insult, 45, 221, 238

Bab es Saba. See “the Gate of the Morning”

Baghallet el Ashar, “the mule of the tenth,” 257

Baharia, 221, 229, 304, 311, 318, 319

Bahnessa, 304

Bahrein, 301, 304

Bahr el Ghazal, 301

Bahr esh Shaytan, Satan’s sea. See Mirage

Bakhshish, tips, 43

Baki, 296

Baldness, 262

Ball, Dr, John, 310, 312, 315

Barbary sheep, 303

Barr, dried manure used as fuel, 123

Barrenness in women, charms, etc., against, 262

Barrum Wady. See Bahr el Ghazal

Barth, H., 335

Basket work, 32

Bates, Oric, 334

Battikh, a form of sand erosion, 28, 202, 308

Bau, 296

Beadnell, H. Ll., 307

Bedadi, 296, 298

Bedawi, pl. Bedawin, a nomad

Bedayat race, 116, 131, 134, 199, 207, 210, 220, 221, 263, 295, 296, 299, 302, 303

Bees, 283

Bekker el Wahash, 303

Belad esh Shaytan, Satan’s country, 47

Belat, 37, 151, 294, 303, 317; ’omda of, 37, 138, 139

Benghazi, 306

Beni Adi, 304, 305

Berberines, 22

Berdis, 24, 25

Beris, 305, 313

Bersim, clover, 47

Bey, a military title

Bidau, 296-298

Bilharsia, 144

Bir, a well; in the oases a modern one

Bir ’Abd el Qadr, 222

Bir ’Ain Sheykh Mufta, 328

Bir Dikker, 304

Bir el Hamia, 57

Bir el Jebel, 60

Bir Kairowin, 222, 224

Bir Labayat, 227, 304

Bir Magnun, 51

Bir Mansura ’Abdulla, 341

Bir Murr, 222

Bir Natrun, 134, 305, 321

Bir Sheykh Mohammed, 60

Bir Terfawi, 305, 321

Bird-trap, 267, 268

Birth ceremonies, 249

Bisharin, 332

Biskra, 108, 302

Blind gardener in Mut, 139, 140

Boema, 298

“Books of treasure,” 52-56, 58, 145, 203-207, 212, 214

Borku, 299, 300, 335

Borselain, a plant, 261

“Bristle tails,” 283

Bronchitis, 261

Brugsch, H. K., 315

Bu el Agul, grave, 128

Bu Gerara, 201, 203-215, 219, 246

Bu Mungar, 97, 230-236, 244, 246, 287, 299, 304, 307, 309

Bu Senata, 298

Bu Zibad, 298

Budkhulu, 56, 317

Buhuruz, 297

Bulaq, 32, 313

Burnus, a native cloak, 93

Busa, dried stalks of maize, etc.

Buseima, 301

Bushara, 296, 298-300, 306

Butterflies, 283

Cairo, 21-23

Cambyses, King, mines of, 53; army sent to Siwa, 220

Camel brands. See wasm

Camel corps, 135

Camel drivers, 25, 34

Camel firing a, 92

Camel fly, 24

Camels, 35, 36, 94, 136, 137

„ watering of, 116-118, 124

Cana, F. R., 293

Cartouche writing, 334

Castles, 314, 315

Chad, Lake, 301

Chalk, 222, 224

Chanties of camel drivers, 268, 269

Charms, 251, 252

Churning, 265

Circumcision, 251, 253, 256

Clairvoyance, 271-279

Clay ridges, 31, 308, 309

Coins dug up, 206, 211, 214

Col de Zenaga, 334

Cooking of the bedawin, 206, 207

Coptic remains, 37, 314. See also Antiquities

Copts, 257, 270, 314

Cotton moth, 283

Cradles, 260

Cranes, 288

Crocodiles, 301; drawings of, 335

Crossbow, 268

Cryptograms of the Tawarek, 335

Cultivation and vegetation, 41, 48, 49, 51, 56, 75, 228, 229, 230, 241, 243, 247, 264, 294, 303, 309-313, 316, 318

Cupping, 152

Customs. See Manners and Customs

Cyrenaica, 293

Cyrus the Great, 54

Dahab, Suleyman Gindi, 22, 34, 110, 132, 142, 143, 162-167, 192, 199, 217, 234, 238, 239, 244

Dakhakhin, 313

Dakhla, 18, 32, 36-81, 90, 91, 128, 130, 138-159, 202, 203, 225, 227, 229, 231, 235, 246, 248-265, 280-284, 288, 294, 300, 303-305, 310, 311, 316-319, 320, 321

Dancing, 193, 254

Darfur, 305; ’Ali Dinar, Sultan of, 199, 210

Darius I, King of Persia, 315

Darius II, King of Persia, 315

Dawa, magical invocation, 272-279

Deafness, 261

Dendura, 199, 200, 299, 300, 304

Dengue fever, 144

Depots, 158, 159, 164, 173-175, 180

Der, a large building or monastery

Der ed, 314, 315

Der Abu Madi, 50, 53, 55

Der el ’Ain, 53

Der el Arais, 145

Der el Banat, 53, 55

Der el Hagar, 58, 78

Der el Seba’a Banat, 53, 55, 101

Der Muhurug, 202

Derb, road

„ el Arbain, 297, 305

„ ed Deri, 202

„ el Gubary, 128, 243, 284, 305, 336-346

„ el Khashabi, 203, 305

„ et Tawil, 128, 201-205, 212, 305, 307

„ et Terfawi, 294, 305

Derr, 305

Dervishes, 19-21, 25, 133, 134, 182

“Desert Mosque,” 233

Desiccation of the desert, 212

Dhayat en Neml, 294

Divorce, 251

Dongola, 298

Dorcas gazelle, 282

Dovecots, 315

Dragon flies, 284

Dress of bride, 252

Drunkenness, 45, 46

Duck, 284

Dumbness, 261

Dunes. See Sand

Dungun, 305

Dush, 313, 314

Duveyrier, H., 335

Eagles, 284, 288

Earthenware, 253

Edfu, 54

Educated Egyptians, 144-146

“Egyptian Oasis,” 300, 304, 320, 321

Eiffel Tower time signals, 297

Electrical phenomena, 93, 94, 307

Emphysema, 261

Endi, 210

Enver Pasha, 105

Epilepsy, 261

Equipment, 33, 34, 206

Erbayana, 299, 301, 302

Erosion. See Sand

Ershay lake, 300-302

Ertha, 296, 299

Erwully, 296, 299, 300

Esna, 53, 54, 213, 305

Eve, 256

Evil eye, 250

Ezba, hamlet, farm, of Sheykh Ahmed, 60, 64-74

Ezbet Sheykh Mufta, 145

Fahal, eight-year-old camel, 35

Families, size of, in oases, 262

Fantasia, “powder play,” 253, 259

Farafaroni, natives of Farafra Oasis, 225

Farafra, 199, 200, 207, 218-231, 246, 266, 288, 294, 304, 307, 310, 311, 318

Farshut, 305

Faruwia, 297

Fas, a hoe, 264

Fasher, el, 296-298

Fatha, el, the first chapter of the Koran, 252

Fatimite dynasty, 259

Fauna, 24, 32, 36, 79, 88, 97, 247, 280-292, 301, 303, 318

Fayum, 301, 304

“Feathered” snake, 286

Fellah, pl. fellahin, an Egyptian peasant

Ferikh, pop-corn, 69

Fever, 30

Figuig Oasis, 334

Fiki, a minor holy man, 254, 255, 259

Fire making, 122, 124, 228

Flags, used in ceremonies, 253, 254, 259

Flatters, Col., expedition of, 162

Flies, 283, 287, 288

Flora, 28, 32, 49, 96-98, 111, 222, 223, 228, 229, 232, 233, 247, 258, 280, 282, 291, 292, 294, 318

Fly, camel, 318

Flying lizard. See issulla

Fodder, difficulty in procuring, 138, 139, 151, 155-157

Fog in desert, 310

Forbes, Mrs. Rosita, 306

Formah, 297

Fox, spotted, seen, 281, 288

Funerals, 254-256

Funfun, well, 296, 298

Furwa, sheepskin, 33

Gada, sportsman

Gahaz, things brought by a bride to her new home, 253

Gara, a rocky hill

Gara bu Gerara, 203-205

Gara esh Shorfa, 334

Garden of Eden, 214, 256

Gardener, blind man in Mut, 139, 140

Garet, dim. of gara

Garet ed Dahab, 205

Garet el Leben, 302

Gassi, a sand free path through dunes, 304

“Gate of the Morning,” 96, 118

Gazelle, 37, 215, 223, 282, 288; trap for, 266, 267

Gedida, 75, 145, 304, 317, 318

Gennah, 313

Geology, 28, 33, 83, 84, 88, 90, 112, 115, 216, 220, 294

Gerara, 330

Geryville, 334, 335

Ghul, a cannibal ghost, 140-143

Girga, 305

Girgof, el, 294

Giza, 304

Glass, dug up, 206, 214

Gorgi Michael, 43

Gorn el Gennah, 315

Graffiti, 247, 326-336

Gramophones, 70

Grasshoppers, 283

Graves, pattern of, 255

“Great oasis,” 310

Grey hair, 262

Gritstone hill, 83

Gubary road. See Derb el Gubary

Guebar Rashim, 334

Guehda. See Qasr el Guehda

Guest chambers, 49, 61, 65

Guides, 25, 26, 134; skill of, 105, 112

Gula, earthenware water bottle, 66

Gurba, skin water bag, 97, 132

Gurba patches, 97

Gurban, an old gold coin, 56

Guru, 301

Guss abu Said, 227, 231, 304

Guttara well, 296, 300

Haggi, a man who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca

Hair, ceremony on first cutting a child’s, 250

Hair dressing, 253

Hamamla tribe, 330

Harb tribe, 330

Harda, 335

Harubga, a game, 335

Hashish, Indian hemp, 135, 137, 261

Hassanein Bey, 298, 306, 319-321

Hassun tribe, 330

Hattia, uninhabited oasis

Hawerti tribe, 332

Heg, a three-year-old camel, 35

Heraldry among Arabs, 330

Hibis temple, 29, 315; town, 314

High level oasis, 316, 319

Hills in desert, shapes of, 88, 90, 111, 115, 309

Hindau, 41, 154, 238, 317

Horses, 48, 50

Hoskins, 315

Hospitality, 38, 39, 50, 66-74, 136, 193

Hram, a plaid-like garment worn in Tripoli, 41

Hurj, saddle-bags, 33

Hurry tribe and lake, 302

Hussein, grandson of the prophet Mohammed, 256

Hyena, 281

Ibn ed Dris, Sheykh of Farafra zawia, 228, 229, 234

Ibn esh Sha’ar, one-year-old camel, 35

Ibn es Sena, one-year-old camel, 35

Ibn Lebun, two-year-old camel, 35

Ibrahim Musa Said, camel driver, 132-135, 140-143, 148, 151-155, 163, 180-182, 199-201, 216, 221, 234

Ibrahim, Sheykh of the zawia at Qasr Dakhl, 61, 62

Ibrahim Zaky, mamur of Mut, 43-46

Iddaila, 97, 199, 207, 227, 231, 234, 246, 302, 304, 309

Immorality, 143, 251, 260

Insects, list of, 322

Interference between artesian wells, 244

Invasion of Egypt by the Senussia, 106, 127

Iron pyrites, 224

Irrigation. See Cultivation

“Islands of the Blest,” 311

Issulla, a flying lizard, probably mythical, 285, 286

Italians in Tripoli, 135, 198

Jackals, 280-282, 288

Jaghabub, 301, 304

Jaja, 313

Jaj Mohammed, el, 335

Jalo, 60, 301, 304, 306

Jebel, lit. mountain, in Egypt the desert, 28, 319

„ Abdulla, 115, 151, 153, 154, 158, 159, 173, 177, 300, 303

„ Dakar, 302

„ Edmondstone, 236

„ el Bayed, 112-118, 148, 149, 151, 153, 154, 158-160, 164, 169, 174-176, 178, 179

„ el Ghazallet, 302

„ el Owanat, 319

„ Ghennihma, 312, 315

„ Gunna el Bahari, 227

„ Hashem el Gud, 302

„ Jabail, 202

„ Kusu, 301

„ Maydob, 298

„ Somara, 302

„ Ta’aref, 312

„ Tarfaia, 302

„ Ter, 312

„ Um el Ghenneiem, 312

Jebsia tribe, 330

Jedabya, 306

Jedda, five-year-old camel, 35

Jemel, full-grown male camel, 35

Johnson, E. A. Pasha, 52-54, 212

Kafir, infidel

Kairowin hattia, 220, 222, 233, 304, 311

Kantar, 100 Egyptian pounds, 47

Karbala, battle of, 256

Kas, cymbals, 252

Katb el kitab, part of a marriage ceremony, 252

Kebabish tribe, 298

Kebabo, 299

Kerkadi, Sudanese tea, 70

Kerzazia dervishes, 20

Khalif of Islam, 106

Khalifa Zenata, 259

Khalil Salah Gaber, interpreter, 22, 34, 96, 101, 102, 124-126

Khamasin, fifty days of spring, 257

Khan, a native inn, in Assiut, 132

Khana tribe, 330

Kharafish, a form of sand erosion, 28, 87, 202, 308

Kharashef, a form of sand erosion, 28, 202, 308

Kharga, 23, 28-32, 90, 129, 132, 157, 202, 215, 225, 227, 243, 244, 246, 248, 258-260, 265, 283, 284, 288, 293, 297, 305, 308-319, 326

Khatim, lit. seal, diagram used in magic, 273, 274

Khatma, a religious ceremony, 254

Khobayza, a plant, 282

Kimri, palm doves, 57, 284, 285; experiment with, 90, 91, 321

Kites, 284

Kowora, 298, 302

Kufara, 18, 52, 60, 71, 77, 82, 83, 98, 109, 131, 147, 149, 199, 234, 293, 296, 298, 299, 301-306, 319

Kuffara, 296

Kurkur Oasis, 305

Kysis, town of, 314; temple of, 315

Lace wing flies, 287

Lagia, el, 303, 305, 321

Lahd, recess in a grave for the body to lie in, 255

“Lake of the mud tortoises” of Miani, 303

Lame camels, 88, 89, 92

Lane’s “Modern Egyptians,” 253-278

Leaking water tanks, 153, 155, 161-164, 182

Lefa’a, horned viper, 286

Left hand unclean among Moslems, 278

Legends, 53-58, 63, 75, 78, 221

“Letters” written by illiterate bedawin, 180, 235

Leylet el Wahada, night of solitude, 254

Leylet el Wahsha, night of desolation, 254

Libyan desert boundaries, 17

Ligatured monograms of the Tawarek, 335

Light phenomena, 307

Litham, mask worn by the Tibbus and Tawarek, 277

Lizards, 285, 288

Locusts, 283

Looms, 314

Lughad, 296

Luxor, 146, 305

Mabsat, pleased

Madania dervishes, 133

Made roads, 205

Maghagha, 304

Maghrib, west, evening prayer, 67

Magic. See Superstitions and magicians

Magicians, 146, 154, 194, 212, 217, 271

Mahdi, of Khartum, 107; of the Senussia, 106-109; a veiled prophet, 108

Mahmal of Cairo, 259; of Kharga, 258-260

Mahmed ben Abd er Rahman Bu Zian, founder of the Ziania dervishes, 182

Mahr, dowry, 252

Maimun, the afrit, 274-279

“Making the peace,” 46, 194, 242

Maks Bahari, 313

Maks Gibli, 313

Malaria, 30, 261

Malif tribe, 330

Mamur, a native magistrate, 183-191, 193-196

Mandal, a magical performance, 272-279

Manfalut, 199, 202

Mange, 76, 79

Manners and customs, 34, 39, 46, 47, 50, 67, 152, 193, 206, 207, 232, 247, 251-254, 256, 259, 260, 265, 268, 269

Mansur, camel driver, 200

Mantids, 286, 287

“Map”-making by bedawin, 208

Marble, 202

Marhaka, two stones for crushing grain, 97

Marmarica, 334

Marriage ceremonies, 251-254

Marsa Matru, 335

Masara, 41, 145, 317

Mashishia dervishes, 133

Mastaba, platform, bench, or tomb, 53, 56

Mecca, 108

Medicine, native, 261, 262, 279, 282

Meheriq, 313

Melanism, human, 152

Menna, wife of the founder of the Senussia, 108

Merga, 300, 302, 303, 321

Merkaz, the office of a mamur

Mesopotamia, 214

Metaphors, Arabic, 201, 202

Meteors, 307

Miani, 303

Migration of birds, 36, 79, 101, 287, 288

Mill, for flour, 264, 265; for olives 265

Minia, 304

Mirage, 113, 179

“Mist,” as showing a distant valley, 95

M’khiat er Rih tribe, 221

Mohammed ben ’ali es Senussi, founder of the Senussia dervishes, 108

Mohammed el Mawhub, Sheykh of the zawia at Qasr Dakhl, 40, 60-64, 73, 74, 144, 145, 147, 149, 196, 229, 234, 240, 242, 243, 245

Mohammed et Tounsi, 335

Mohammed, Sheykh of Farafra zawia, 228

Mohammed, the Prophet, 57, 106

Mohammed V, of Turkey, 127

Mohanny, camel driver, 200

Morocco, 108

Mosquitoes, 283, 287

Moths, 283, 287

Mud tortoises, lake of, 303

Mudir, governor of a province Mukhlia, camel’s nosebag, 33

Mulid, feast on birthday of a saint, 259

Munkar, “the unknown,” a black angel, 255

Musa, camel driver, 25, 34, 92

Musbut, 297

Mushaluba, um Shaloba, 296

Mushia, 75, 317, 318

Music, effect of, on camels, 92, 270

Musical sands, 100, 220, 263

Musical stones, 98, 100

Mut, 41-48, 76, 82, 90, 91, 100, 139-159, 182-192, 194, 236-241, 244, 262, 284, 295, 305, 317

Nachtigal, Gustav, 297, 298

Nadura, temple of, 315

Naga, a full-grown female camel, 35

Nails, ceremony on first cutting a child’s, 250

Naja, cobra, 286

Nakir, “the repudiating,” a black angel, 255

Native information, collecting, 207-211, 220, 221, 295

Nazili Genub, 201

Negeb, a pass down a cliff

„ er Rumi, 216

„ Shushina, 205

„ to Bu Mungar, 232

„ to Dakhla, 36

Nesla, 227, 231, 287, 304

Nestorius, Bishop, 314

Nicknames, 128, 134

Nijem, lit. star; to know the nijem = knowledge of the desert, 170

Nile, River, 301, 302

Nimr Awad, 25, 134, 149, 150

Noah, 256

No’on lake, 303

Noon shelters, 111

Noser, hollow desert, 87

Oasis, meaning of, 310

“Oasis of the blacks,” 52

Officials, class of, in oases, 43-45

Oil, olive, 265, 318, 321

Olive mill, 265

“Olive oasis,” 91, 320, 321

Olive press, 265

’Omar Wahaby, mamur of Dakhla, 156

’Omda, village headman, for individuals see under name of village

Ophthalmia, 261

Orfili tribe, 332

Oshar, a plant, 258

Ostrich, eggshells of, 97, 335, 336; drawings of, 335

Ovens, 73

Owana. See Owanat

Owanat, 130, 165, 197, 198, 300, 303, 305, 319-321

“Pace” eggs, 257

Palestine, 307

Pan-Islam, 20

Patron Saints, 132, 182

Peridots, 55

Persian dynasty in Egypt, 315

Perthes, Justus, map of, 321

Petrified wood, 90, 212

Phthisis, 261

Pigeons, 284

Pilgrimage to Mecca, 260

Pirate hordes, 214

Pneumonia, 261

“Pool of ink.” See Mandal

Pope, the, 106

Post office in Mut, 139

Pottery, 98, 318; dug up, 211, 214, 223

Pounding rice, 43, 265

Proportion, small sense of, in bedawin, 95

“Punishment of the Grave,” 255

Qadria dervishes, 134

Qala’a es Suri, 53

Qalamun, 48, 154, 317, 318

Qara, 23, 24, 28-34, 245; el Qara, 304

Qasr Dakhl, 40, 56-64, 83, 203, 236, 317; Sheykhs of, 57

„ Dush, 314, 315

„ el ’Aini hospital, 146

„ el Guehda, 32, 315

„ el Jaj Ahmer, 334

„ Farafra, 224-230, 244, 304, 319

„ Lebakha, 136, 137

„ Zaiyan, 32, 305, 314, 315

Qena, 293, 305

Qoreish tribe, 57

Qom el Gennah, 312

Quail, 230, 284

Qway, Hassan Qway, guide, 26, 27, 33, 35, 57, 62, 89, 102-105, 112-114, 123-125, 132, 134-136, 138, 146-148, 150-152, 154-156, 158-161, 164-179, 182-192, 196-198, 221

Qwaytin Mohammed Said, guide, 199-212, 215-218, 220-222, 224, 225, 228, 231-235, 238, 239, 243, 245

Raba’a, a six-year-old camel, 35

Rabiat, a camel saddle, 33

Rahmania dervishes, 20

Railways, 23, 27, 28

Rain, 98, 291, 310

Rashida, 41, 48-57, 184, 193, 263-265, 317

Rashida, ’omda of, 45, 48-56, 76, 110, 144, 194

Rats, 88, 97, 288-292

Ravens, 284

“Reappearance” of the Senussi Mahdi, 109

Red Sea, 306

Redir, a hollow where rain-water collects, 97, 311

Refar, tribute, 20

Remedies for diseases, 261, 262

Reshaida tribe, 332

Resoling a camel, 35

Results of journeys, 246

Rice, 43

Rim, Loder’s gazelle, 282

Ringworm, 227

Roadh, a clump of bushes in the desert, 215, 311

Roads, caravan, 304-306, 309

Roads, disused, 77, 82, 87, 97, 98, 101, 112, 128, 130, 131, 135, 213, 215, 294, 305, 321

Rockets, use of, 176

Rohlfs, Gerard, 18, 52, 53, 84, 85, 297-299, 304

Rosaries, 186

Rotunda hospital, 146

Royal Geographical Society, 18, 214

Rushwork mats, etc., 314

Rusuf, a form of sand erosion, 28, 202, 308

Safar, an Arab month, 249

Sagia, a wheel for raising water, 75, 145

Sahara, 17

St. Thomas’s hospital, 146

St. Vitus’s Dance, 261

Saj, griddle, 34, 207

Salah Nejem ed Din, Turkish Sultan, 260

Saline land, 41, 229, 244, 280, 294

Salutations, 37

Sand and sand dunes, 18, 21, 31, 32, 36, 47, 48, 75, 77, 80, 82, 84, 85, 96, 97, 115, 127, 136, 203, 220, 221, 223, 225, 235, 236, 244, 246, 247, 262, 263, 293, 294, 299, 300, 302-307, 309, 318

Sand erosion, 28, 29, 202, 204, 216, 224, 308

Sand grouse, 284, 288

Sand storms, 93, 94, 234, 235, 307

Saraf. See Mandal

Sarra well, 296

“Satan’s country,” 47, 81

“Saying the fatha,” a marriage ceremony, 252

Schweinfurth, Prof., 315

Scorpions, 262, 282; charm against, 251, 258; scorpion proof platform, 282

“Seal of Solomon,” 332, 334

Sedis, seven-year-old camel, 35

“Sieving the baby” ceremony, 249, 250

Selima Oasis, 295, 305, 321

Senussia, the Senussi dervishes, 18-20, 25, 40, 60, 106-109, 131-134, 138, 139, 144-149, 154, 156-160, 183, 186, 190, 196-199, 207, 217, 223, 228, 229, 233, 245, 293, 301, 304, 319

Senussi, Sheykh of Mut, 44, 146, 147, 154, 237, 241

Senussi, Sheykh of Smint, 40, 184

Senussi invasion of Egypt, threatened, 106-109, 127

Senussi Mahdi, 106-109

Sha’aban, an Arab month, night of the middle of, ceremonies, 258, 259

Shadhlia dervishes, 109, 133, 182

Shadhly, Sheykh, founder of the Shadhlia, 109, 133

Shaduf, a machine for raising water, 48

Shager ed Durr, a Turkish Sultana, 260

Shebb, 305

Shellala Dehrania, 335

Shem en Nessim, smelling the breeze, an Egyptian feast, 193, 257

Sheykh, a religious or tribal leader

Sheykh Adam, tree of, 48

Sheykh el Afrit. See Magician

Shia Moslems, 256

Shurbuji family, 48

Sickle, toothed, 264

Sidra, Gulf of, 17

Sif, a longitudinal dune, 221, 235

Sight, keenness of, among bedawin, 85, 86, 180

“Silver fish,” 283

Simum, hot wind, 89, 90, 161, 257

Singing of camel drivers, 268-270

Sitra lake, 302, 304, 309

Siwa Oasis, 18, 53, 293, 301, 302, 304, 307, 319

Slave traders, 97, 320

Smint, 38, 146, 241, 317

Smint el Kharab, ruins, 37, 328

Smint, ’omda of, 38, 41

Smoking, 25, 39, 40, 227, 229

Snake bites, 282

Snakes, 251, 282, 283, 286

Snipe, 284

Sofut, a form of sand erosion, 87, 88, 97

Sohag, 305

Sollum, 146

Solomon, King, 54

“Song of the Sands,” 99, 100

Soul, tree with a, 48, 49, 263

Sound, clearness of, in desert, 171

Sparks. See Electricity

Spiders, 282

Spotted fox seen, 281

Statistics, 260, 261, 317-319

Storks, 288

Suleyman Awad, Sheykh, 24-27, 134-136, 148, 149

Sultan of Turkey, 106

Sundial, human, 313

Sunni Moslems, 106

Sunt, acacia

Sunt ’Abd en Nebi, 264

Superstitions, 48, 49, 113, 119, 140, 143, 145, 151, 152, 187, 194, 201, 212, 217, 249-251, 257, 262, 270-279, 286

Surat el Mulk, part of the Koran read after a funeral, 254

Surk, 199

Surveying methods, 86, 219, 223, 224

Sutary, clown, 252

Swallows, 287

Swimming bath, 193

Swing cradles, 260

Tabl beladi, a drum, 252

Tahdir, magician’s medium, 272-279

Taiserbo, 301

Talisman, 142, 143, 263

Taal’at, 105

Tamtam, tambourine, 72

Tar, tambourine, 253

Tarantulas, 282

Tawarek race, 25, 199, 335

Tchonemyris, ruined town, 314

Tea drinking, 39, 261

Temples. See Qasr

Tenida, 37, 157, 185, 241, 283, 303, 305, 317

Tenida, ’omda of, 139, 157, 241

Terfawi, 321

Thenni, four-year-old camel, 35

Thirst, expedients in case of, 170, 171

Thothmes III, 314

Thought transference, 278, 279

Thunderstorm, 99

Tibbus, 208, 210, 236, 295, 298, 301

Tibesti, 17, 109, 207, 210, 299, 301

Tidikelt, 334

Tifinagh, writing of the Tawarek, 25, 330, 334

Tijania dervishes, 20

Tikeru, 131, 296, 298, 299, 306

Tilho, Col., 297, 299, 300, 303, 320, 335

Timbuktu, 199

Tollab, 296-299

Town crier of Mut, 139, 140

Tracking Qway, 164-179

Tracks of cart, 83; of issulla, 285, 286; permanence of, in desert, 83, 87; of Senussi couriers, 82, 83, 98

Trade winds, 306

Traps, 266-268

Treasure-hunting, 51, 58, 59, 76, 79, 144, 145, 203-223, 279

“Tree of extremity,” 258

Tree with a soul, 48

Tree worship, traces of, 263, 264

Trial of Qway, 187-191, 196

Tripoli, 107, 131, 135, 304

Tuggurt, 302

Tulsim, Talisman

Tumas, 305

Tunis, 21

Tunisian libraries, 19

Tunnelled streets, 313

Turkish revolution, 105, 106, 127

Turks in Kufara, 109

Twat Oases, 302, 330, 334, 335

Ulad ben Miriam tribe, 330

Ulad Mahmud tribe, 330

Um el Atham, 296

Um Shaloba, Mushaluba, 296

Valley of the Bedayat, 303

“Valley of the Mist,” 89, 92, 95, 96, 111, 151, 153, 154

“Valley of the Rat,” 88, 90, 95, 178

Vegetation. See Flora

Veil worn by women, 277

Venereal diseases, 261

Veterinary methods, 76, 204, 205

Viper, 283, 286

Wad Ghirh Oases, 302, 310, 311

„ Igharghar, 301, 302

„ Ighargharen, 301

„ Mihero, 301

„ Saura, 301

Wady Dom, 299

„ el Far. See “Valley of the Rat”

„ el Fardy, 301, 302, 304, 319

„ el Fede, 301

„ el Muluk, 54

„ esh Shabur. See “Valley of the Mist”

„ Howar, 297, 302

„ Howash, 298

„ Kafut, 297

„ Kobay, 297

„ Ko’or, 302

„ Kuttum, 297, 303

„ Medjoures, 296

„ Meleeat, 297

„ Moghara, 304

„ Natrun, 304

„ Tibbu, 301

Wahatis, natives of the oases, 248

Wakwak islands, 214

Wall paintings, 314

Wanjunga Kebir, 131, 296, 300, 306

Wanjunga Sgheir, 131, 296, 300, 306

Wanjungat, the district containing the above two places

Waran, a large lizard, 285

Washing in the desert, 118

Wasm, tribal camel brand, 24-26, 73, 235, 330-333

Water, action of, in forming depressions, 294

Water tanks, 132, 161-164

“Watermelon” desert. See battikh

Wayta Kebir, 296, 298

Wayta Sgheir, 296, 298

Weather, 92, 98, 99

Wehda. See Qasr el Guehda

Wells. See Cultivation

Wind-blown grass, 96, 97

Wind scoop, 123

Wind shelters, 116, 117

Winds, 97, 299, 300, 306, 307, 310; influence of, in desert, 307-310

Wissa, Dr., 144-146

Wolves, 281, 288

Wood, petrified, 90

Yum Ashura, ceremonies on 10th of Moharrem, 256, 257

Yussef Effendi, tangerine oranges, 49

Zabit, police officer

Zaghawa tribe, 297

Zaiyan. See Qasr

Zawia, monastery, 20

„ at ’Ain Sheykh Murzuk, 225, 230

„ at Hindau, 238

„ at Qasr Dakhl, 40, 60-64, 134, 144, 145, 229, 242

„ at Qasr Farafra, 223, 228, 229

„ at Smint, 40, 154, 184

Zeffet el Arusa, procession of the bride, 252, 253

Zemzemia, water bag, 132

Zerzura Oasis, 51-54, 57, 58, 63, 75, 76, 78, 100, 101, 128, 145, 299, 304

Ziania dervishes, 20, 182

Zoazi tribe, 330

Zodiacal light, 307

Zowia tribe, 330