GESSl PASHA. 115 journey whicli I now proceed to describe, and which is new ground to English readers.

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At the end of last year Gressi Pasha, while coming from the interior down the Bahr-el-G-hazel, with a steamer and four boats, was blocked near Lake No. They were enclosed for about three months, and 400 out of 500 men died from fever or starvation. They had no food, and for a long time had to subsist on grass and the flesh of those who died. The horrors of such an imprisonment I will not attempt to portray. It cost poor Gressi his life. He never recovered from the effects of the misery of such a sojourn. After having been rescued by M. Marno, he arrived in Khartoum a living skeleton, and in spite of the care and attention of devoted friends, he died at Suez on April 30, 1881. Another life sacrificed for Africa I 2