The proclamation is enclosed (returned).
| (Signed) | Abderrahhmân en Najoomi, Abdallah en Noor. |
This letter is without any of the usual forms of civility at the top, and is addressed simply “to Gordon,” without any title, and on the back of his own letter. It is also written high up, near the top of the sheet, as from a superior to one greatly his inferior.
[APPENDIX N.]
Letter from Lieut-Colonel Stewart, C.M.G., to General Gordon.
Island of El Hassa Heya, 4 miles south of Berber,
14th September, 1884.
My dear General,