[13] Berber is about 200 miles from Kartoum.—Ed.
[14] English Consular Agent at Berber. According to M. Herbin’s telegram from Kartoum received by M. Barrère on 22nd September, 1884, Cuzzi had gone to Kordofan, but whether free or as a prisoner was not stated.—Egypt, No.35 (1884), No.142.—Ed.
[15] Duem is a town on the White Nile about 100 miles from Kartoum.—Ed.
[16] A cereal very much resembling Indian corn.—Ed.
[17] The Sheikh el Obeyed declared for the Mahdi in March 1884.
[18] At first sight there might seem something of a contradiction in these sentiments, but, when weighed, they will be found consistent and sound. They convey an idea which was constantly at work in General Gordon’s mind, and this to the effect that man should make every effort towards the attainment of perfection, and then, and not till then, leave the issue to God; that he should, in fact, draw on all earthly resources—as the instrument of God—and that, these exhausted, he should then look to Heaven for aid not to be drawn from earth.—Ed.
[19] “Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.
“No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
“And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.”
“Yet thus saith the Lord God; at the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered: