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"^ ' » ^ ceil ^ oo c M' N a CO THE LIFE OF "CHINESE" GORDON, TOI R.E., OB. BY CHARLES H. ALLEN, F.R.Q.8., Stuttary cf M« BriMi and Foreign Anti-Slaveri/ Soeiety. TORONTO: WILLIAM BRIGGS, 78 ft 80 KiHO Stkir Eait. MontfMl, Q. : O. W. OOATE8. | Halifax. N.8. : 8. F. HUE8TI8. 1884. (0 (8 UJ 4) B (0 JS •♦* CO w CO Q. o OO < t O 5§ o ^ Q. S UJ g < To ba had of AkMllars and Nawadaalars. WHAT 18 CATARRH? Frwn the MaU (Canada), Dte. IBtk. OaUrrh ia » muoo-piirulent discharge cMiBed by the presence and development of ttie vege- table parasite amasba in the internal lining membrane o( the nose. This parasite is only de- veloped under favourable circumstances, and these are : Morbid state of the blood, as the blighted corpuscle of tubercle, the germ poison of syphilis, mercury, toxoemea, from the reten- tion of the effeted matter of the sitin, suppressed prespiration, badly ventilated sleeping apart- ments, and other poisons that are germinated in the blood. 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ALLEN, F.R.G.S., Stcretary qfthe British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. » • « The voice of the people, spoken in no uncertain tone, through count- less organs of the press, uas at length prevailed; and the whole civilized world breathes more freely because Chinese Gordon is now speeding over land and sea, as fast as steam could carry him, in order to try and restore order in the Soudan, and to undo the mischief wrought by months of incapacity and hesitation. It is devoutly to be hoped that he will not arrive too late upon the scene of his former glorious labours, though it seems strange to any one — not e. Cabinet Minister — that he was not called from his retreat months ago. He has been living in Palestine during the past year, and might, at any time, have been relegated to the Soudan at a mo- ment's notice. However we will hope that, even now, the magic of his name will turn the scale with many of the powerful chieftains of that country who may be wavering in their allegiance, and that on his arrival he will find himself at the head of a large body of devoted followers. Many persons may be asking themselves, " Who ib Ohinese Gor- don t and why is he the only man whose presence can save the Soudan 1" // V GORDONS BOYHOOD. This question may best be answered by stringing together in a com- pendious form a few of the incidents of his stirring life, for full par- ticulars of which the reader is referred to the only three volumes that have yet been published concerning him, but which are too bulky and too costly to find their way into general circulation.* Having carefully studied all those works, and having had the great advantage and the high privilege of conversing and corresponding during several years with General Gordon upon some of those great questions which lie nearest his heart, the present writer may, perhaps, be considered not wholly unqualified for the difficult task he has undertaken. He is well aware of General Gordon's great dislike to being praised, as he has often heard him request that " no gilt might be laid upon him,'^ when describing his deeds. This is almost an impossibility — never- theless it shall be attended to as far as can truthfully be done in the following slight narrative. To Dr. Hill and Mr. Egmont Hake he is indebted for most of the information here given, though some inci- dents are taken from private letters written to himself. V V Gordon's Titles. It is almost as difficult to give this illustrious officer his proper de- signation as it is to select the salient points of his life. The sphere of his action extends over three continents, in each of which he has ob- tained some of the highest titles and honours. He is a General in the Britieh Army, and a O.B. He is also a Ti Tu (the highest rank con- ferred on any subject in China). He belongs to the Order of the Star, and is entitled to wear the Yellow Jacket aud the Peacock's Feather. In Egypt he has attained to the rank of Pasha, and, as is well known, he was for some years Governor General of the Soudan. His life may be divided into five distinct and important sections, of each of which a slight sketch shall now be given. His Boyhood. Ohakles G. Gordon, fourth son of the late Lieutenant-Genoral Henry W. Gordon, S.A., was born at Woolwich, January 28th, 1833. ***The Ever- Vidorxova Army," by Andrew Wilson, 1868. ** Colmul Gordm in Central Africa," by Dr. Hill, 1881, and 2nd Edition, 1884. " Ths Story of OMiMU Gordon," by A. Egmont Hake, 1884. IN THE CRIMEA AND IN CHINA. He oomes of a family of soldiers, one of his immediate ancestors being a godson of the Duke of Cumberland (of OuUoden notoriety), and a distinguished actor in the North American War, having served under Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham. Charles Gordon's early life pre- sents little that is noteworthy ; but we are toW of one instance when the fire of the future hero flashed suddenly forth. Being rebuked during his cadetship for incompetence, and told that he would never make an officer, he suddenly tore the epaulets from his shoulders and flung them at his superior's feet. t Gordon in the Crimea, Bessarabia, etc Gordon worked steadily in the trenches before Sebastopol, where he distinguished himself by his skill in detecting the movements of the enemy. The present Lord Wolseley was his companion-in-arms, and is mentioned in Gordon's journal as having been slightly wounded. His capacity as an officer of Engineers procured his appointment on the Commission for settling the boundaries of Kussia and Turkey, which employed him until the end of 1868. Gordon in China : (The Tai-Ping Rebellion). In 1860, Gordon was ordered to China, and was present during the attack on Fekin and the sack of the Bummer Palace. It will be necessary here to say a few words respecting the great Tai-Ping rebellion, which at that time threatened not only to overturn the Imperial throne, but also to devastate the whole country. Some of the southern provinces had already been laid waste with fire and sword by the rebels, and the safety of Shanghai itself was threatened. This extraordinary rebellion was commenced by a fanatical school- master called Hung, who had attracted to his standard an army con- sisting of several hundred thousand wild and ferocious followers. In some respects the commencement of the outbreak bears a similarity to the present insurrection in the Soudan under the Mahdi. Gordon quelled the insurrection in China, and overthrew the armies of Hung and his companions : let us hope that he may be equally successful in putting an end to the formidable disturbances in the Soudan. Hung said that his mission wes to exterminate the Manchoo race, and he found hundreds of thousands to believe in him. Gradually the " prophet " gathered a great army, and gained one victory after 6 THE EVER-VICTORIOUS ARMY. another, until he stormed Nanking and established his throne there. Under the shadow of the Porcelain Tower he marshalled his great army, appointing his own relatives to the high office of Wangs, or Kings, and bestowing upon them various familiar nicknames, such as " Yellow Tiger," " Oock-Eye," " The One-Eyed Dog," etc. His troops ravaged the country, and the Imperialists could do nothing against him. The starving peasants wore reduced to cannibalism ; business in the coast towns was paralysed, and the rebel who caused this desolation and suffering bestowed on himself the title of the Heavenly King. The British Government having been asked to eppoint an officer to take command of the Chinese Imperialist forces, Gordon was selected for that important post, and the following quotation from his letters home in 1863, shows in what spirit he entered upon his gigantic task : — " I am afraid yon will be mncli vexed at my having taken the command of the Sun^-kiang force, and that I am now a Mandarin. 1 have taken the step on consideration. I think that anyone who contributes to putting down this rebeUion fulfils a humane task, and I also think tends a great deal to open China to civilization. I will not act rashly, and I trust to be able soon to return to England ; at the same time I will remember your and my father's wishes, and endeavour to remain as short a time as possible. I can say that if I had not accepted the command I believe the force would have been broken up and the rebellion gone on in its misery for years. I trust this will not now be the case, and that I may soon be able to comfort you on this subject. You must not fret on this matter^; I think I am doing a good service. ... .1 keep your likeness before me, and can assure you and my father that I will not be rash, and that as soon as I can conveniently, and with regard to the object I have in view, I will return home 1 " f The Ever-viotorious Arht. " The ever-victorious army," as Gordon's force was called, at first consisted of only 4,000 men, but indifferently armed. Under the sway of his genius, however, they soon became a formidable army, and their superior discipline enabled them to attack much larger forces with unvarying success. One or two gun-boats also did good service in that land of canals and rivers, whilst the swiftness of Gordon's movements and the force of his unexpected blows soon created a panic amongst the insurgents. Stockade after stockade was stormed, and one city after another taken, till at last the neck of the rebellion was broken. The sucoeaa of the " ever- victorious " army was largely owing to General Gordon's personal gallantry, without which it would have been imposrible to have led his troops in assaults that often appeared Gordon's own view of his work. 7 like a forlorn hope. He carried no weapon himself, but always went into action armed with a small cane, with which he would stand oalmly under the hottest fire, pointing to the spots he wished attacked, and encouraging his soldiers by voice and gesture. No wonder that this little cane was christened by the soldiers " Gordon's Wand of Victory" and as he himself appeared to possess a charmed life, and seemed rather to enjoy standing amid a hailstorm of bullets, his men considered him invulnerable. It is related that once, as he was leading a storming party, his men wavered under a terrific fire. Gordon turned cheerfully round, stood still, and calmly lighted a' cigar. He then waved his " magic " wand, and his soldiers came oa with a rush, carrying the position. Once only his good fortune failed him, and he was shot in the leg. He tried to conceal hi» wound, and stood giving orders till he nearly fainted, and had to be- carried from the field. It is somewhat difficult to follow every move- ment of General Gordon in China, the reason for which may be found in the following extract. He says : — " I have sent my journal of 1863, home. I do not want the same published, as I think if my proceedings sink into oblivion it would be better for everyone. My reason for this is, that it is a very contested point whether we ought tO have interfered or not, on which point I am perfectly satisfied that it was the proper and humane course to pursue ; but I still do not expect people that do not know much about it to concur in the same." Unfortunately he afterwards destroyed these valuable journals. Gobdom's Owk Yikw of His Work. B g 6 d His own short summary of the war, written to his mother, may fitly close the account of the Ohinese portion of his life : "I shall, of course, make myself quite sore that the rebels are quashed before I break up the force, as otherwise I should incur great responsibility, but on these subjects I act for myself and judge for myself ; this I have found to be the best way of gettine on. I shall not leave things in a mess, I hope, but I think, if I am spared, I shall be home by Christmas. The losses I have sustained in this campaign have been no joke. Out of 100 officers I have had 48 killed and wounded, and out of 3,500 men nearly 1,000 killed and wounded ; but I have the satisfaction of knowing that, as far as mortal can see, six months will see the end of this rebellion, while if I had continued inactive it might have lingered on for six years. Do not think I am ill-tempered, but I do not care one jot about my promotion, or what people mav say. I know I shall leave China as poor as I entered it, but with the knowledge thct through my weak instrumentality upwards of eighty to one hundred thousand lives have been spared. I want no farther satisfaction than this." 8 GORDON AT 0RAVB8END. When a sum of JC10,000 was forwarded to him by the Emperor he divided it all amongst his troops. I| What Tlie Times Said. In a leading article The Times of August 5, 1864, thus graphically summed up the benefits that had accrued to China by Gordon's brilliant operations against the rebels : — "Never did soldier of fortune deport himself with a nicer sense of military honour, with more gallantry against the resisting and with more mercy towards the vanquished, with more disinterested neglect of opportunities of personal advantage, or with more entire devotion to the objects and desires of his own Government, than this officer, who, after all his victories, has just laid down his sword. A history of operations among cities of uncouth names, and in provinces the geography of which is unknown except to special students, would be tedious ancl uninstructive. The result of Colonel Gordon's opera- tions, however, is this : He found the rich and the most fertile districts of China in the hands of the most savage brigands. The silk districts were the scenes of their cruelty and riot, and the great historical cities of Hangchow and Soochow were rapidly following the fate of Nanking, and were becoming deso- late ruins in their possession. Gordon has cut the rebellion in half, has re- covered the great cities, has isolated and utterly discouraged the fragments of the brigand power, and has left the marauders nothing but a few tracts of devastated country and their stronghold of Nanking. All this he has effected — first by the power of his arms, and afterwards still more rapidly by the terror of his name." The Heavenly Kino. Before Gordon left China he had the satisfaction of knowing that Nanking had fallen, .".nd the rebellion was quite at an end. The miserable fanatic, who gave out that he was inspired, and took the name of the Heavenly King, refused to survive the cause for which he had so long fought, and which he had degraded by so many untold cruelties. It is said that his favourite amusement was to have his wretched captives flayed alive, or pounded to death, and he is con- sidered by Mr. Hake to have been guilty of greater crimes than almost any other human (?) being I When all was lost he hung his wives and then committed suicide, and thus ended, with the death of this incarnate demon, one of the most terrible and desolating revolts that had ever scourged poor humanity. How could China sufficiently thank the modest young officer of Engineers who had delivered her from 80 great a tyrant 1 Gordon at Gravesbnd. Even more unknown to the public than his Chinese life are the six peaceful years passed by ColQnel Gordon, O.R, at Gravesend, A lady's description of him. V where he was employed from 1865 to 1871 in the construction of the Thames defences. He had refused to be honoured or filed when he returned from China, preferring to bury himself in obscurity, and to quietly and steadily carry out his duties. His engineering work afforded full scope for his militiry talents, whilst the moral and religious side of his nature had an ample field for congenial work. Those six years he describes as amongst the happiest of his life. Mr. Hake gives a few interesting particulars; but owing to Gordon's extreme reticence about himself and his dislike to all publicity, the full extent of his benevolent work on the Thames will never be known. What Mn. Haks Says. " To the world his life at Gravesend was a life of self-suppression and self- denial ; to himii.clf it was one of happiness and pure peace. He lived wholly for others. His house was school, and hospital, and aunshouse in turn — and was more like the abode of a missionary than a colonel of Engineers. The troubles of all interested him alike. The poor, the sick, the unfortunate were ever wel- come, and never did suppliant knock vainly at bis door. He always took a Seat delight in children, but especially in boys employed on the river or sea. any he rescued from the gutter ; cleansed them and clothed them, and kept them for weeks in his home. For their benefit he established evening classes over which he himself presided ; reading to and teaching the lads with as much ardour as if he were leading them to victory. He called them his ' kings,' and for many of them he got berths on board ship. One day a friend asked him why there were so many pins stuck into tlie map of the world over his mantelpiece ; he was told that they marked and followed the course of the boys on their voyages — ^that they were moved from point to point as his youngsters advanced, and that he prayed for them as they went day by day. H?<) light in which he was held by these lads was shown by inscriptions in chalk on the fences. A favourite legend was ' God bless the xiLemel. ' So full did his classes at length become that the house would no longer hold them, and they had to be given up. Then it was that he attended and taught at the ragged schools, and it was a pleasant thing to watch the attention with which his wild scholars listened to his words." . . . A gentleman who knew him well at this time has told the writer that Qordon used to bring his boys to London, when ready for sea, and take the himself to shipowner' offices until he found them a suitable berth. No trouble was too great for this indefatigable bene- factor of his fellow-creatures. A Last's Description of Him. " His benevolence embraced all," writes one who saw much of him at this time. "Misery was quite sufiicient claim for him, without going into the Sjuestion of merit, and of course sometimes he was deceived, but very seldom, or he had an eye that saw through and through people ; it seemed useless to tr> to hide anything from him. I have often wondered how much this wonderful -IHF 10 HIS MEDALS. I power was due to natural astuteness, or how much to his own clear singleness of mind and freedom from self that the truth about everything seemed revealed to him. The workhouse and the infirmary were his constant haunts, and of Sensioners he had a countless number all over the neighbourhood. Many of the ying sent for him in preference to the clergy, and ever ready was he to visit them, no matter in what weather or at what distance. But he would never take the chair at a religious meeting, or be in any way prominent. He was always willing to conduct services for the poor and address a sweeps' tea-meeting ; but all public speechifying, especially where complimentary speeches were made in his honour, he loathed. All eating and drinking he was indifferent to. Coming home with us one afternoon late, we found his tea waiting for him — a most unappetizing stale loaf and a tea-pot of tea. I remarked upon the dryness of the bread, when he took the whole loaf (a small one), crammed it into the slop-basin, and poured all the tea upon it, saying it would soon be ready for him to eat, and in half-an-hour it would not matter what he had eaten. He always had dry, humorous little speeches at command that flavoured all his talk, and I remember the merry twinlcle with which he told us that many of the boys, thinking that being invited to live with the Colonel meant delicate fare and luxury, were unpleasantly enlightened upon that point when they found he sat down with them to salt heei and just the necessaiy food. He kindly gave us a key to his garden, thinking our children might Uke to walk there sometimes. The first time my husband and I visited it, we remarked what nice peas and vegetables of all kinds there were, and the housekeeper coming out, we made some such remark to her. She at once told us that the Colonel never tasted them— that nearly all the garden, a large one, was cultivated by different poor people to whom he gave permission to plant what they chose, and to take the Sroceeds. She added that it often happened that presents of fine fruit and owers would be sent to the Colonel, and that he would never so much as taste them, but take them or send them at once to the hospital or workhouse for the sick. He always thanked the donors, but never told them how their gifts had been appreciated. We used to say he had no self, in that following his Divine Master. He would never talk of himself and his doings; therefore his life never can and never will be written. It was in these years that the first book about him came out. He allowed the author to come and stay at Fort House, and gave him every facility towards bringing out his book (all the particulars about thn Tai-ping Rebellion) even to lending him his diary. Then, from some- thing that was said, he discovered that personal acts of his own (bravery, possibly) were described, and he asked to see what had been written. Then he tore out page after page the parte about himself, to the poor author's chagrin, who told him he had spoiled his book. I tried to get at the bottom of this feeling of his, telling him he might be justly proud of these things ; but was answered that no man has a right to be proud of anything, inasmuch u he has no native good in him — he has received it alL " His Medals. " He had a great number of medals, for which he cared nothing. There was a gold one, however, given to him by the Empress of China, with a special inscription engraved upon it, for which he had a great liking. But it suddenly disappeared ; no one knew where or how. Years afterwards it was found out, by a curious accident, that Gordon had erased the inscription, and sent the medal anonymously to Canon Miller, to be sold for the relief of the sufferers from the cotton &mine at Manchester." /ll k QOBDOlir IN THE SOUDAN. 11 " Thus he spent the next six yean of his life : in slums, hospitals, and workhouse, or knee-deep in the river at work upon the Thames defence." After spending a year or two in the scene of his former labours as English Oommissioner on the Danube, he was asked to undertake the administration of the Soudan. This office he accepted, but refused to take more than £2,000 per annum; scarcely enough to cover his expenses. This portion of his life certainly possesses more interest for Englishmen at the present moment than even the history of his brilliant exploits in Ohina. Sir Samuel Baker. Gordon's great precursor in the difficult task of bringing the Soudan into order and subduing the Slave-hunting hordes was Sir Samuel Baker, whose remarkable journey to the Lake districts is so graphic- ally described in his Ismailia, published in 1874. Encouraged by the warm support of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, who visited Egypt in 1869, the Khedive Ismail appointed Sir Samuel Baker to the com- mand of a large force with which he was " to strike a direct blow at the Slave-trade in its distant nest." The firman contained amongst other clauses the following : — " To subdue to our authority the coun- tries situated to the South of Gondokoro ; to suppress the Slave-trade, to introduce a system of regular commerce ; to open to navigation the great Lakes of the Equator, and to establish a chain of military stations and commercial dep6ts throughout Central Africa," them no obstacle. They liked a cane-bottomed chair best for you sit on." His Mission in these Lands. " Residence in these Oriental lands tends, after a time, to blunt ones suscep- tibilities of right and justice, and, therefore, the necessity for men to return at. certain periods to their own countries to re-imbibe the notion of the same. Some men become imbued with the notions of injustice much quicker than others when abroad, but certainly has not taken much time to throw off all the trammels of civilized life, and to be ready to take up the unjust dealings of an Arab Pasha. The varnish of civilized life is very thin, and only super- ficial. . . Man does not know what he is capable of in circumstances of this- sort ; unless he has the lode star, he has no guide, no counsellor in his walk. " I feel that I have a mission here (not taken in its usual sense). The men and officers like my justice, candour, my outbursts of temper, and see that I am not a tyrant. Over two years we have lived intimately together, and they watch me closely. I am glad that they do so. My wish and desire is that all should be ka happy as it rests with me to make them, and, though I feel sur& that I am unjust sometimes, it is not the rule with me to be so. I care for their marches, for their wants and food, and protect their women and boys if they Ul-treat them ; and / do nothing of this — / am a chisel which cuts the wood, the Carpenter directs it. If I lose my edge. He must sharpen me ; if He puts me aside and takes another, it is His own good wUl. None are indispensable to Him." * End or Gobdon's First Expedition to Central Atrioa. " Khartoum, October 29, 1876. — I see there are English sparrows here ; it i» quite a pleasure to see them. . . [These letters are my journal, so do not nail me down to anything I may say that I propose to do.} " " Cairo, December 2. — I arrived here to-day at seven in the morning, twenty dc^s from Khartoum. I called on Cherif Pasha, who is Minister for Foreisn Affairs, uid he was very civil ; but I do not think he relished telling the Khedive I would not stay in his service." [Colonel Gordon arrived in London on December 24th, 1876.] Colonel Gordon had been almost exactly three years in the Soudan^ He had performed a vast work, and had opened the country from Cairo to the Lakes, establishing fortified posts and uprooting thfr Gordon's second journey to the soudan. ^ Slave-trade in many parts. For a full description of this work, and for an account of the terrible difficulties he had encountered from the opposition of the Slave-dealers, the unhealthy nature of the climate, and wcmt of nourishing food, the reader is referred to Dr. Hill's and Mr. Hake's most interesting volumes. No one can appreciate what Gordon went through. Nearly all white men who went out to him died or were invalided home. He alone seemed to brave all vicissi- tudes ; but even his iron frame had many a rude shaking. His personal servant, a German, forsook him and fled. Upon which he remarked, with characteristic sententiousness, "So much the better ! The best servant I ever had is myself ; he always does what I like." Colonel Gordon's Second Journey to the Soudan. a fit :- IS )t m Oolonel Gordon was not, however, long allowed to remain at hom%, for we soon find the Khedive (Ismail) putting great pressure upon his friend to induce him to return to the scene of his former exploits. But this time his empire was to be largely extended, and his rule was to be even more absolute. On the 31st January, 1877, Col. Gordon thus writes in London : — "I have promised : — that if His Highness will not give me the province of Soudan, I will not go back to the Lakes. I do not think he will give it, and I think you will see me back in six weeks. ... I hope to start to-night. I will make a stand at Cairo ; and, if I see it is no use going up, I wul give it up." But he did not give it up. The Khedive, as will shortly be seen, granted to Colonel Gordon all that he demanded, and he soon after 4Btarted upon the second expedition to the Soudan. On February 17, the Khedive thus wrote to Colonel Gordon : — "Setting a just value on your honourable character, on your zeal, and on the |nreat services that you have already done me, I have resolved to bring the Soudan, Darfour, and the provinces of the Equator into one great province, ' and to place it under you as Qovemor-General. As the country which you are thus to govern is so vast, you must have beneath you three vakeels (or deputy- .govemom), the first for the Soudan properly so-culed ; the second for Darfour; «nd the third for the shores of the Red Sea and the Eastern Soudan. There are two matters to which I would draw your attention : the first, the rappression of slavery ; the second, the improvements of the means of commu- nication. As Abyssinia, for a great distance, lies along the borders of the Son- dan, I beg you, when you are on the spot, to look carefully into the state of affidrs there ; and I sive yon power, should you think well, to enter into nego- tiations with the antnorities of that kingdom, to the end that i, settioisent may be arrived at of the matter in dispute between us and them. " 16 CAMEL KIDINO. ,11 On February 18, 1877, Colonel Gordon left Cairo for Suez, on his vay to Massawa, where he arrived on the 26th of that month. Camel Bidino. " I expect to ride 5,000 miles this year, if I am Spared. I am quite alone, and like it. I am become wliat people call a great fatalist, viz., I trust Qod will pull me through every difficulty. The solitary grandeur of the desert makes one feel how vain is the effort of man. This carries me through my troubles, and enables me to look on death as a coming relief when it is ~Iis will. The heat is sometimes terrible. I am now accustomed to the camel It is a wonderful creature with its silent, cushion-like tread "I have a splendid camel — none like it; it flies alone, and quite astonishea even the Arabs. I came flying into this station in marsnal's uniform, and be- fore the men had time to unpUe their arms I had arrived, with only one man with me. I could not help it ; the escort did not come in for an hour and a half afterwards. The Arab chief who came with me said it was the telegraph. The Gordons and the camels are of the same race — let them take an idea into their heads, and nothing will take it out. If my camel feels inclined to go in any particular direction, there he will go, pull as much as you like. The grand cordon was given to a man ivho guaranteed to give it to me as we approached * the station ; but alas ! it did not come for an hour afterwards. It is f eariul to see the Governor-General, arrayed in gold clothes, flying along like a madman, with only a guide, as if he was pursued. The Mudir had not time to gather himself together before the enemy was on him. Some of the guards were down at a well drinking ; it was no use, before they got half way to their arms, the goal was won. Specks had been seen on the vast plain moving towards it (like Jehu's advance), but the specs were few — only two or three — and were supposed to be the advance guard, and before the men of Fogia knew where they were, the station was taken. The artillerymen were the only ones ready!" This marvelous power of endurance and swiftness in travelling often stood Gordon in good stead. He came upon the people una- wares, and before his enemies had time to organize any resistance he often rushed in and obtained their submission. The Burden is almost too Great. " I have an enormous province to look after ; but it is a great blessing to me to know that God has undertaken the administration of it, and it is His work, and not mine. If I fail it is His will ; if I succeed it is His work. Certainly, He has given me the joy of not regarding the honours of this world, and to value my union with Him above all things. May I be humbled to the dust and fail, so that He may glorify Himself ! The greatness of my position only depresses me, and I cannot help wishing that the time had come when He will lay me aside and use some other worm to do His work. You have reached your happy even-tide. I would that the heat of my life-day was over ; but He will aid nie, and not suffer me again to put down anchors in this world. . . . " Khartoum, May 18. — I think the people like me, and it is an immense comfort tliat, while in the old regime ten or fifteen people were flogged daily, now none get flogged. A huge crowd stand round the palatial gates all day,, but only a few are privileged with an interview, for I keep a box with a slit in the lid for petitions at the door, and every one can put his petition in it. Hitherto the people could never approach the governor, unless they bribed the clerks. £600, £300, 10 ounces of gold, £100, and £80 have been given to my head clerk merely in the hope of getting a place. SLAVK HUNTERS AGAIN. 17 Thk Anti-Slaviirt Sooiett. "Oomohanga, June 21. — The immense difficulty there is in causing this Slave-trafSo to cease, has now come home to me. I wish one of the Anti- Slavery Society, capable of understanding the question, would come here and give me the solution of it. I have complete power— civil and military. No one would say a word if I put one or ten men to death ; and, therefore, I must be considered entirely responsible if the Slave-trade ;3oes on. But here is my position : Darfour and Kordofan are peopled by huge Bedouin tribes under their own sheikhs, who are rather more than semi-independent. The country for the most part is a vast desert, with wells few and far between, some of which are only known to these tribes. Some of these tribes can put from 2,000 to 6,000 horse— or camel — men into the field ; and a revolt, as I know to my cost, is no small thing in such a country. Now these tribes raid on the Negro tribes to the south, or else exchange cloth for slaves with the Bedouin tribes beyond even the pretended boundary of Egypt." The Slavs Question. •'I wish you would send me the Anti-Slavery Society's publication. I do not* know the name or where it is published. * " People think you have only to say the word and Slavery will cease. Now here the Gallabat merchants I have told you of have taken thirty of this tribe. I am trying to search them out, but I dare not do anything against these Galla- bats on account of my present position with respect to Shaka. I fear to raise these men against me ; they are well-disposed at present. " One thing troubles me. What am I to do with the three or four thousand slaves, women and children, that are now at Shaka, if we take it? I cannot take them back to their own country ; I cannot feed them. Solve this problem for me ; I must let them be taken by my auxiliaries, or by my soldiers, or by the merchants. There is no help for it. If I let them loose, they will be picked up in every direction, for an escaped Slave is like an escaped sheep— the property of him who finds him or her. One must consider what is best for the individual himself, not what may seem best to tlie judgment of Europe ; it is the Slave who suffers, not Europe. " People have little idea how little glorious war is ; it is organized murder, pillage, and cruelty, and it is seldom that the weight falls on the fighting men — it is on the women, children, and old people. The Crimea was the exception. '* The Slave-Hunters Aoain. "August 31, 1877. — In the midst of my Actions against the insurgent tribes^ while everything is tending to the end of the revolt, I have received intelli- gence that the Slave-traders, with their troops of armed slaves, numbering some 6,000, have camped near Dara. I am obliged to go there at once. . . . . Started for Dara. Met en rotUe the Lieutenant-Colonel who was bribed, coming to meet me. I would not see him. He has allowed his men to rob ri^ht and left, and the people came running to me all along the road. These irregulars steal a boy or a girl with as little compunction as a fowl. It is really terrible. * The Anti-Slavery Reporter, 55 New Broad Street, E.C. 18 A CARAVAN OF SLAVES. "I got to Dare alone, about 4 p.m., long before my escort, having ridden eighty-five milea in a day and a-half . About seven miles from Dara I go into a ■warm of flies, and they annoyed me and my camel so much, that we jolted along as fast as we could. Upwards of 300 were on my camel's head, and I was covered with them. I suppose that the queen fly was among them. If I had no escort of men, I had a larffe escort of these flies. I came on my people like a thunderbolt. As soon as they had recovered, the salute was fired. My poor escort ! Where is it ? Imagine to yourself a single, dirty, red-faced man on a camel, ornamented with flies, arriving in the divan all of a sudden. The people were paralysed, and could not believe their eyes." L'l Slave-Huntbhs Ovebawks. "Dara, Sept. 2, 1877. — No dinner after my long ride, but a quiet night, for- getting my miseries. At dawn I got up, and putting on the golden armour the Khedive gave me, went out to see my troops, and then mounted my horse, and with an escort of my robbers of Bashi-Baizouks, rode out to the camp of the other robbers, three miles o£f. I was met by the son of Sebehr — a nice-looking lad of twenty-two years— and rode through the robber bands. There were about 3,000 of them — men and boys. I rode to the tent in the camp; the whole body of chiefs were dumbfounded at my coming among them. After a glass of water, I went back, telling the son of Sebehr to come with his family to my divan. They all came, and' sitting there in a circle, I gave them in choice Arabic my ideas — that they meditated revolt ; that I knew it ; and that they should now have my ultimatum — viz., that I would disarm them and break them up. They listened in silence, and then went off to consider what I had said. They have just now sent in a letter stoting their submission, and I thank Qod for it. They have pillaged the country all round, and I cannot help it. . . . . I am running a great risk in going into the slaver's nest with only four companies, but I will trust to Qod to help me, and the best policy with these people is a bold one. A Cabavav or Slaves. " EtUre notM, I think I am conveying from Shaka to Obeid a caravan of Slaves. I cannot help it. One man save that seven women who are with him are his wives ! I (cannot disprove it. There are numbers of children — ^the men say that they are all their offspring. . . . When you have got the ink which has soaked into blotting-paper out of it, then Slavery will cease in these lands. "I have not yet made up my mind what to do about the Slaves and the Slave question ; but I mean to stop, and that at once, the Slave-markets at Katarif , Qalabat and, Shaka ; next, I must prevent the raids on the black tribes near the Bahr Gazelle, for which I have given orders. Galabat is a ^lace under a semi-independent chief of the Tokrookia. The Tokrookis are immigranto from Darfour, and are a fierce set. Then at 2ieila there is another semi-inde- Sendent chief, of much power with the tribes, named Aboubeo'r. He is a great lave exporter, and is too strong to touch unless you have plenty of troops. . . . It tuma out that the men of Sebehr's son had noucht to do with one of the Slave-gangs I met. The Slaves came from Dare, and had been captured and sold to the pedlars by my own officera and men. . . . One of the Shaka men who is ridmg with me tells me that hundreds and hun Shaka is marked by the camping-places of the slave-dealers ; and there are numerous skulls by the side ef the road. What thousands have parsed along here ! . . . I hear some districts are completeU* depopulated, all the inhabitants having been captured or starved to death. U our Government, instead of bothering the Khedive about that wretched debt, had spent £1,000 a year in sending up a consul here, what a deal of suffering might have been saved ! ... As for slaves, I am sick of them, and hope soon to see the last of them ; poor creatures I I am sorry I can't take them back to their own countries, but it is impossible to do so. . . . There must have been over 1,000 slaves in this den, and yet the slave-dealers had had warning of my approach ; and at least as rasmy as 500 must have got away from me. The Bedouin Arabs are up all over the country ; and so are the black tribes, I hear, at Bahr Gazelle. We have got at the heart of them this time. But for how many years has this been gomg on ? " Just as I wrote this I heard a very great tumult going on among the Arabs ; and I feared a fight. However, it turned out to be caused by the division of the slaves among the tribes ; and now the country is covered by strings of slaves going o£F in all directions with their new owners. The ostriches are running all about, and do not know what to make of their liberty. What a terrible time of it these poor, patient slaves have had for the last three days — hurried on all sides, and forced ^rst one day's march in one direction, and then off again in another. It appears that the slaves were not divided, but were scrambled for. 22 SKULLS. It is a horrid idea, for, of course, families get separated ; but I cannot help> it, and the slaves seem to be perfectly inuiilerent to anything whatsoever. Imagine what it must be to be dragged from your home to places so far off- even further than Marseilles or Rome. In their own lands some of these slavea have delightful abodes, close to running water, with pleasant glades of trees, ■Sid seem so happy ; and then to be dragged off into these torrid water-forsaken oonatries, where to eaeitt only is a struggle against nature 1 Skulls I *' Why should I, at every mile, be stared at b^ the grinnbg skulls of those who are at rest? I say to Yussuf Bey, who is a noted slave-dealer, 'The inmate of that biJl has told Allah whal you and your people have done to him and his.'" " Yussuf Bey savs, ' I did not do it ; ' and I say, ' Your nation did ; and the ourse of God will be on your land till this traffic ceases.' . . . Just as I wrote these words they came and told me that another caravan of eighteen slaves had been captured, with two camels. I went to see the poor creatures. They were mostly children and women — such skeletons some of them. Two slave-dealers had escaped. Now fancy all this going on after all the examples I have made t Fancy, that in less than twenty-four hours I have caught seventy I There is no reason to doubt but that seventy a day have been passing for the last jrear or so. You know how many caravans I have caught— some seventy or eighty ; besides those 1,000 I liberated (?) at Kalaka? It is enough to cause despair. Thus, in three days, we have caught 400 slaves. The number of skulls along the road is appalling. We shall capture a number more at the wells to-night ; for as the slave-dealers thought I should act on what Abel Bey told me (i.e., that there were no slaves or slave-dealers here), and as they had deceived th& Italian, they had not taken the precaution of filling their water-bags. Thus they are unable to flee, as there lies three days' journey around here without, water. Now, the wells here are guarded. The number of slaves captured from the dealers in this campaign must be close upon 1,700 1 I have no doubt that very great suffering is going on among the poor slaves still at large ; for the dealers not yet captured will not be able to go to the wells to-night, and they will not surrender till pounced on to-morrow. The slaves are delighted 'y they are mostly women and children. One little wretch, named Capsune, is not. yet four years old, but he has given capital information about the slave-dealers. He is all btomach and head, and with mere pins of legs. (N.B. — Capsune i» now in England with Mr. Felkin.) "... We have cancht more slaves during to-night and to-day. The slave- dealers, seeing the wells guarded, let them go. However, some huge caravans^ regardless of their hkving no water, and of the three days' desert, have escaped. They were pursued by some of the natives ; but the slave-dealera fired on them, and so the natives returned here. They noticed that one of the fugitives died en route. It is very terrible to think of the great suffering of the poor slaves thus dragged away ; but I had no option in the matter, for I could not catch> them. The water here is horrible, — it smells even when fresh from the wells. I have ordered the skulls, which lay o.T out here in great numbers, to be piled in a heap, as a memento to the nativ^^.^i > t what the slave-dealers have done to their ale To give you an u\i}& of the callousness of the people in these i, I will tell you what happened to-d&y. I heard a voice complaining and moaning for some hours, and at last I sent to inquire what it was. It turned out to m an Egyptian soldier, who was ill and wanted water. There were within hearing some thirty or forty people, — some of them his fellow-soldiers, — yet not one, though they understood his language, wouH give a thought to him. ..." THE SLAVE-DEALERS. How MAKT SlAVU Dll. *' I hare jart made a calculation of the lou of life in Darfour durins the yean 1S75-1879. It comes to 16,000 Egyptiana, and some 60,000 natives o! Danour. Add to this the loss of life on the Bahr Gazelle, some 15,000, and you will have a fine total of 81,000 ; and this exclusive of the slave-trade, which one may put down for these years at from 80,000 to 100,000." TbK SLAVB-DSAIiBBS. " Upwards of 470 slave-dealers have been driven out of this place since I came here two days ago. This evenine we were surprised at a caravan of 122 slaves coming in ; the slave-dealers had come on here with them, and hearing I was here, and having no water, they abandoned their slaves and fled. The slaves were sadly distressed by thirst ; thirty had died on the road. Thej^ had come from near Dara. Though the water here is putrid, and everythmg is wretched enough, I feel revived when I make these captures. You must count them up. From Oomchanga to Toashia during — say a week — we must have caught from 600 to 600. I suppose we may consider that nearly that number must Lave been passing every week for the last year-and-a-half or two years along this road i 1 1 And this during my tenure of office I ! ! — which is very creditable to me. These slaves just captured have been four or five days with- out water. They were in the most terrible distress." Fbmininb Vanitt. " To show that the passion of the female sex for finery exists even in the midst of the greatest suffering, three black sluts were brought before me to be questioned as to the escaped slave-dealers. I saw one caremlly undo the comer of a filthy bit of cloth she had on, and produce a necklace of a few paltry beads, which she put on and then looked quite happy. These slaves had naught to eat for five days ; for, of course, as they coidd carry no watev they could carry no food. . . . Capsune never smiles— he has cone through too much bitterness to feel any joy. I asked him to-day if he nad got over his fatigues. He said, ' No, no — I still feel the Effects of my journey, and (patting his globe) want of water.' He is only stomach and head — one globe on the top of another." "June 21, 1879. — More slaves caught. To-dav I was obliged to come to a decision as to the future of the 450 slaves I had here ; who, of course, eating, were a real burden. After a long discussion, I have decided to give them over to the natives of the place, who are of their own blood. When I sent for the Slaves, and told them they could not be sent back to their own homes whence they were torn, but that they were free to go where they liked, they all decided to stay with their fellow-countrymen here, and now they are all stream- ing over the country on the way to their new homes." The people of England will surely soon begin to see that all these Egyptian disturbances turn upon the question of Slavery, just as truly as the war in the United States was in reality a Slave-holders' war. This ^t has for years been proclaimed by the Anti-Slavbrt SooiBTY, on the unimpeachable evidence of Sohweimvubth, Bakeb, Gordon, Fblkin, and others. OBSSI PASHA. "June 25. — ^Yesterday the post came in from GessL ... He says that the last of the bands of robber Slave-dealers is crushed. I am waiting for him here. S" 24 GESSI PASHA. . . . He has just arrived, looking much older. Having arranged with hint for the future of Bahr Gazelle, I am now starting for Khartoum. He is going back to follow up Sebehr's son. . . . He is very much gratified at having been made a Pasha, with the second class of Oomaiilie, and with my gift, «.e.» Soudan's gift of £2,000. In July, 1879, Gordon left the Soudan after the deposition of the Khedive Ismail. His work against the Slave-dealers was ably carried on by his officers, Gessi Pasha, Emin Bey, Lupton Bey, and others ; and a very considerable success was obtained. After Gessi Pasha's tragic death in 1881, the Slave-dealers again had it pretty much their own way. The result we all know in the revolt headed by the Mahdi. It can scarcely be said that the delay in sending General Gordon to the Soudan has been owing to any lack of warning on the part of those best qualified to judge. In March of last year the writer of this paper published the following extract of a letter from Khartoum, forwarded to him from Egypt by the celebrated African traveller, Dr Schweinfurth : " The Europeans at Khartoum appear to be anxious for the re-appointment of His Excellency Gordon Pasha, as Governor-General ; they believe, rightly or wrongly, that he is the only man capable of crushing the rebellion. Our corres- pondent also says that a large number of the most influential natives hold the same opinion ; and confirms the statement that Gordon Pasha was the most popular and beloved Governor-General that ever ruled the Soudan, and that a lively recollection of the wisdom and firmness which he displayed during his tenure of office, is cherished by all classes of the population of Egypt's distant and troublesome dependency." « Some weeks ago, an eminent person, well known in the philan- thropic world, forwarded to the writer the following enthusiastic and fervent appeal, respecting the sending out of General Gordon to the Soudan (he was at that time living at Jaffi , the ancient Joppa): — "Would that an angel would stand at Earl Granville's side and say unto him, * And now send men to Joppa, and call for one,' — Gordon : . . . ' he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do.'" The " angel " has appeared — in the form of Vox Populi — and Gordo^ has told them them what they ought to do ! Will they do it 1 A.fter Colonel Gordon left the Soudan he undertook a mission to the court of the King of Abyssinia. This mission was one of extreme personal danger and difficulty, and was undertaken purely from a feeling of good nature. The terms offered to King John were such as were not likely to please that irascible monarch ; and it is tolerably certain that it was only the coolness and courage of the envoy that prevented the king from carrying out his threat of executing him. A rather sensational arcjunt had been printed of Gordon having 1^ GOllDONS PRESENT JOURNEY TO THE SOUDAN. 25 hink oing ving seized a chair and placed it on a level with the king's throne, but the writer has his authority for stating that this never occurred : in his own simple language he said, "it would have been both rude and foolish." He says that the story must have arisen from his having told the king's interpreter tJiat he did not fear him, for "The king's heart is in the hands of the Lord, as the rivers of water : 'He tumeth it whithersoever He will.' " He also told the king that death would be a great blessing to him personally, and that therefore he did not fear it. Of General Gordon's subsequent history little need be said. The unfortunate error of judgment which allowed him to be so over- persuaded as to consent to accept the post of Secretary to Lord Ripon, Viceroy of India, caused much remark at the time. Those who knew General Gordon, feeling sure that a man of his nature and strength of character could never tolerate such a position, did not share the feeling of wonder with which the news of his sudden resignation was received by the public. This resignation was immediately followed by a self-imposed mission to China, which resulted in the conclusion of terms of peace between that country and Russia. Thus for the second time China has been deeply indebted to the exertions of General Gordon. On his return from China he consented to undertake a military command in Mauritius, mainly to oblige a fellow-officer His mission to the Cape Colony was a disappointment. Mr. Hake calls it, " his ^st failure." We can all heartily join in the prayer that it may be his laaL Gordon's Present Journey to the Soudan. On the 16th of the present month the writer saw General Gordon enter the train at Charing Cross, to start on his intended journey to the Congo, via Brussels. Not more than three or four persons witnessed his departure — one of these being his own and Livingstone's old friend, the Rev. Horace Waller, who accompanied him to Dover. Two days afterwards Gordon again left Charing Cross, having been summoned from Brussels by a telegraphic order the very day he arrived there. In a few hours, he had made all his arrangements with the Government — his own personal requirements appear to be almost nil — and he left for Egypt and the Soudan by the Indian Mail. January t 1884. ilti 26 GORDON'S PRESENT JOURNEY TO THE SOUDAN. On February 3rd, Dr. Sohwbinfubth wrote from Oairo to the author of this pamphlet : — " General Gk>rdon flashed through Cairo like a meteor I I feel sure that he will have a complete success in the Soudan. His policy there will astonish the world." In the House of Commons, on the 12th inst., Mr. Gladstone spoke of a plan which had been submitted to the Government by General Gordon, which in any other man's hands would be presumptuous and fanatical ! " But," he continued, " it is not presumptuous nor fanatical in the case of a man with the gifts and powers of General Gordon." This plan could not yet be divulged without danger, but the Prime- Minister stated that "General Gordon went, not for the purpose of reconquering the Soudan, or to persuade the chiefs of the Soudan — the Sultans at the head of their troops — to submit themselves to the Egyptian Government. He went for the double purpose of evacuating the country, by extricating the Egyptian garrisons, and recow^tituting^ «f, by giving hack to these Sultans their ancestral powers — withdrawn,, or suspended, during the period of Egyptian occupation." Here is a role worthy, indeed, of the Napoleon of Peace, who goes forth unarmed, like David, save with the few " smooth stones " drawn from the Word of God, with which he will destroy those "hosts" of opposition and misrule that have so long desolated the land ! General Gordon has arrived at Berber, having safely passed over the dangers of the Korosko desert, and in a comparatively few hours he ought to be at Khartoum. 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