The Meeting loith Gordon. 309 Copy of a letter to tlie editor of the Fjij)loraiore.

" September 9tli, 1879.

" Dear C.VMrEiao, — Your last letters have made, so to say, the tour of the world. They arrived at Dem Suleiman while I Avas away huntino- Suleiman himself, and were sent after me, only reaching' me after innumerable journeyings backwards and forwards.

FELIX GESSI.

" It is difficult to describe all the inconveniences suffered on my journey ; I only arrived at my residence on the 22nd August, when I found the sad news of my son's death at Trieste ; news that has so overpowered me that I have neither heart nor head for anything, and 1 shall need time to recover myself.

Of seven children there only remain two, Felix and