[247] General Gordon marks on back of this telegram, which is one of three, “Telegraph of which Colonel Stewart has the key.”
[248] Appendix Y.
[249] The one alluded to in former paragraph.
[250] See last page.
[251] This account of Major Kitchener is in a letter from General Baker. General Gordon has cut out the portion of the original letter, and has pasted it in the body of his journal.—Ed.
[252] i.e. coming up on a camel.—Ed.
[253] There is some significance in this. The Mahdi in all probability knew General Gordon had recommended Turkish troops being dispatched to the Soudan, and felt he could not hold the country against them, if they came.—Ed.
[254] They were two of the sixteen General Gordon imprisoned for conspiring with the Mahdi.—Ed.
[255] i.e. the way in which this battery was directed towards that part of the Palace which the Arabs knew General Gordon inhabited.—Ed.
[256] That is to say, either those who are being robbed and cheated will in their own interest be forced to give up the town to the enemy, or the robbers and cheats will be bought over by the Mahdi.—Ed.