[165] We are at present not only in strict blockade on the land side of Suakin, but absolutely besieged.—Ed.
[166] Barges.—Ed.
[167] Appendix T.
[168] Sir Evelyn Baring to Earl Granville.
Cairo, February 28th, 1884.
“I have the honour to report to your Lordship that, although I did not specially consult General Gordon on the subject of sending British troops to Assouan, he telegraphs to me that if 100 British troops were sent to Assouan or Wady Halfa, they would run no more risk than Nile tourists, and would have the best effect.... I certainly would not risk sending so small a body as 100 men.”—Egypt No. 12, No. 170.—Ed.
[169] The foregoing portion of the Journal is written on tissue copying-paper.—Ed.
[170] This part of the Journal is written on telegraph forms.—Ed.
[171] Captured at Berber by the Arabs.—Ed.
[172] General Gordon asks in an undated telegram, written after the fall of Berber: “Is it right that I should have been sent to Kartoum with only seven followers, after the destruction of Hicks’ army, and no attention paid to me till communications were cut?”—Ed.