From KJiartoinn to Suez.

415 and tell him that, as witnesses to all that had been plotted against my existence, they would know how to do their duty in case I succumbed.

" Raouf, much alarmed, and now conscious of the danger in which he was, gave orders, and at last a daliabia was put at my disposal. I was carried on board in a litter, and here J am on the voyage to Berber, Avhere I hope to arrive in three days. There I must stay about a week to get the means of proceeding on my journe}'', lying in an niKjerep. I can neither stand nor sit, being so weak and a mere skeleton ; God and I alone know how T have supported such suffering.

" Raouf until the last moment pitilessly showed his cruel sentiments towards me by deducting ten thousand francs from my stipend, that is, reducing me to the pay of a colonel, while that of a general of brigade was due to me. I hope to acquire during the crossing of the desert and the sea voyage strength to go on to Cairo and remonstrate with His Highness the Khedive, and then proceed to Ital3\ In case of need De Martino will help me, for I only ask what in justice is due to me. I shall make the journey direct : Suakim, Suez, Port Said, Alexandria, Carlo, so as to profit as much as possible by the sea air.

" What a sad period I have passed through ! It distresses me to describe it ; you will learn the details from other sources. And this has been my reward for having saved the Soudanese possessions for Egypt, and contributed to the prosperity of the exchequer by the introduction of products and the communications I have opened ! But I will not complain. A Raouf cannot destroy all I have done, and public opinion, which is the glass of truth, will one day give me the recompense I have merited.

The advocate, Jilo Sigari, of Cairo, Avas named executor of Gessi's will, but till now the Egyptian Government has never paid the ten thousand francs to Gessi's family. — F. Gessi.