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the entire control of the Soudan should have fallen, but the Egyptian .Government, far from recognizing his merits, not only assigned no pension to the

widow or the man who had conquered a splendid and vast province, but even refused her the arrears of the pay which as general was due to her husband !

We are, however, certain that England, now omnipotent in Egj^pt, Avill compel that Government to perform a simple act of justice.

The reader must not be offended with the manner in which Gessi Pasha has in this frank record ex-

pressed himself. As we have said, he spoke and wrote in several languages, and, having lived many

j'^ears out of Italy, his command of his mother tongue perhaps suffered. We have only ventured upon a few corrections, and then only when the phrase did not well express the idea. We desired in fact to leave on these writings the original impress of the

author, a man who lias been rightly styled the " Gfaribaldi of Africa."

Manfredo Ca5[PEUI0.