2 28 EGYPT AND THE SOUDAN.

I say nearly all the Egyptian men were slain in spite of their casting themselves down and praying for mercy. Faragh Pasha's head was then carried off to Mahomet Achmet. We heard this when the Kordofan soldiers, who guarded us at the Dormas gate, talked among themselves. We were there for some days; we saw nothing; but only heard what these soldiers told us. They said two steamers with English had come up and gone back."

This is an example of some of the stories told, but when the most credible were listened to and the evidence sifted, the conclusion at which Sir Charles Wilson arrived seemed to be the true one; and—to quote the words with which he closes his record " for more than ten long weary months the wild tribes of the Soudan were kept in check by the genius, the indomitable resolution, and the fertile resources of one man; and long after the controversies of the present day have been forgotten, the defence of Khartum by General Gordon will be looked upon as one of the most memorable military achievements of modern times."