Seven Years in the Soudan.

Khartoum. Tlie post consisted of a large sack, carried by two men. The next day I sent an express to recall Saati Effendi, but my message only reached him at Shakka. Meanwhile, the Governor-General of the Soudan had arrived at Shakka, and was sending three thousand men, commanded by Mustafa Bey, to my assistance.

I had written that I .wanted no one, and so the troops which had already entered the Bahr-el-Ghazal territory were recalled and ordered to Dara. I sent a thousand porters to Meshra-el-Rek to fetch the ammunition, and after ridding myself of eight of the principal rebels and nine slave traders, whom I had condemned to death, I began to make preparations for our approaching departure.

Gordon Pasha sent me a telegram, in which he announced that the Khedive had made me a General, and bestowed on me the Order of the Osmanie of the Third Class.

The obstinate rebellion of the Jelabba had exhausted the Governor-General's patience, and he decided to make an end of the rogues, even at the cost of the destruction of all their villages.

He wrote to me as follows : — " The Jelabba have lost all right to pity ; these barbarians do not merit the least regard or consideration. As we are at work, let us finish it, and destroy their infamous commerce in human flesh. If we lose this opportunity, dear Gessi, you must knoAv that all vour labour will have been in vain.

" Goi;dox." The towns of Shakka and Kalaka, thanks to the energetic proceedings of two Italians, Messedaglia Bey and Emiliaui, were cleared of thousands of Jelabba ; and Avhile Gordon acted with such vigour on one side, the Jelabba of Bahr-el-Ghazal fell by hundreds under the lances of the natives, who largely revenged themselves for the excesses to which they had fallen victims when their families