[3] From Pall Mall Gazette extra, “Too Late,” No. 14.
[4] Egypt, No. 9, Encl. 3, 43.
[5] General Gordon had been incorrectly informed by his spies about Abdel Kader, who had not left Cairo.
[6] This department must not be confounded with the one associated with the Quartermaster-General at the War Office.
[7] The military, civilians, Ulemas, inhabitants and settlers in Kartoum telegraphed on August 19th to the Khedive as follows: “Weakened and reduced to extremities, God in His mercy sent Gordon Pasha to us in the midst of our calamities of the siege, and we should all have perished of hunger and been destroyed. But we, sustained by his intelligence and great military skill, have been preserved in Kartoum until now.”—Egypt, No. 35, p. 112; see also Appendix AB.—Ed.
[8] In this passage we have an example of the old and perfect fairness with which General Gordon dealt with others. Before allowing Mustapha Faki, the neutral, to join his ranks and aid him against the Mahdi, he must first himself be satisfied that such a step would not endanger Faki Mustapha’s life. Success or failure was still doubtful. This, of course, he could not tell Mustapha, but would it be right and just to use him while such a doubt existed? Gordon was of opinion that it would not, and thus he bade Mustapha wait events, and do for him that only which involved no risks.—Ed.
[9] Tuti is an island at the junction of the White and Blue Nile.—Ed.
[10] Near El Obeyed and about 200 miles from Kartoum.—Ed.
[11] Vide Sir Henry Gordon’s Prefatory Note.—Ed.
[12] A small town eight miles north of Kartoum.—Ed.