[201] Suakin was at this time besieged on the land side.—Ed.
[202] The lines extended from the Blue to the White Nile, i.e. from Bourré to the Mogrim Fort.—Ed.
[203] General Gordon had great admiration and affection for the Black Regulars.—Ed.
[204] Baring to Lord Granville, March 6th, 1884.
“With reference to General Graham’s message communicated to Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for War relative to the opening out of the Berber-Suakin route, I wish to say that I do not recommend any English troops being sent to Berber.”—Egypt, No. 12, 1884, No. 214.
[205] i.e. to be removed from my position as Governor-General.—Ed.
[206] “In fact, things are not serious, although they may become so if delay occurs in sending Zebehr (Zubair). My weakness is that of being foreign and Christian and peaceful; and it is only by sending Zebehr that prejudice can be removed.”—General Gordon to Sir E. Baring, Kartoum, March 4th, 1884. Egypt, No. 12. Enclosure 5, in No. 202.
[207] See accounts of slave hunting in the Bahr Gazelle, App. U, b.
[208] I.e. driving the cows down with the view to their exploding the mines.—Ed.
[209] The steamers General Gordon sent to Metemma to assist the relieving force.—Ed.