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CONTENTS
| pages | |
| CHAPTER XXII | |
| AT LAST | |
| Threats of the prisoners — The routed army in flight — Macdonald's brigade — Illuminating the Ratib — Soudanese sang-froid — Sheikh ed Din repulsed — Attack upon Macdonald — Destruction of Yacoub — Flight of the Khaleefa — His narrow escape from the Sirdar — The Sirdar enters the prison — We meet — The head-quarters' mess — Mr. Bennet Burleigh — My German tongue forsakes me | 269-280 |
| CHAPTER XXIII | |
| THE SIRDAR AND SAVAGE WARFARE | |
| The looting of Omdurman — Soudanese troops to the rescue — Genial horseplay — A war correspondent's article — The Sirdar errs in giving quarter — Lex talionis — The ferocity of wounded dervishes — No succour desirable — A challenge to correspondents | 281-288 |
| CHAPTER XXIV | |
| BACK TO CIVILIZATION | |
| High hopes — Disillusionment — Attitude of the War Office — I am forced to defend myself — Newspaper calumnies — The News Agency representative — A good Samaritan — Sir George Newnes | 289-299 |
| CHAPTER XXV | |
| HOW GORDON DIED | |
| Conflicting accounts — A hero's death — Hope deferred — Gordon's last night — Value of my testimony — Father Ohrwalder's evidence — "Ten Years' Captivity" criticized — Justification of Gordon — The trader as missionary — A tribute to Gordon | 300-324 |
| APPENDICES | |
| Appendix 1. | |
| Hassan Bey Hassanein | 325-331 |
| Appendix 2. | |
| Orphali | 332-337 |
| Appendix 3. | |
| Letter dictated by the Khaleefa to General Stephenson | 338-339 |
| Appendix 4. | |
| Ibrahim Pasha Fauzi Gordon's favourite officer | 340-345 |
| Appendix 5. | |
| Ahmed Youssef Kandeel | 346-348 |
| Appendix 6. | |
| The Soudan: its Past, Present, and Future | 349-359 |
