4i6 Seven Years in the Soudan.

" I beg you not to publish Avliat I have written. I think of going to Cairo to save a small sum, and an article from you might vex the Khedive. If my attempts fail, then we will act. "While I am at Cairo I will take some iron baths at Helwan, which is only half an hour's distance from the city. I was recommended to do so by my doctor at Khartoum, a Swiss who is very clever in his profession. I beg you to tell your commissioner at Milan (the same who sent me provisions) to order at Genoa about forty pounds of sea biscuits to be sent direct to my house at Trieste, that being the only bread recommended to me. And if six bottles of old Barbera or Barolo wine could be sent, it would do me good. Who knoATS whether I shall not be obliged to remain shut up at Trieste for a long time r "\Ye shall see where the doctors will send me. You cannot imagine how much I have to tell you ! The ethnographical collection was saved from the voracity of Raouf Pasha b} the Consular Agent, who has charged himself with sending it to the Italian Consul at Suez. As soon as I arrive there I will forward it to Trieste. Casati will now be in Moubuttu. Raouf is furious against liini because of the last articles in the paper. I have sent him the things he wanted through Legnani. You will do Avell to obtain orders about Casati from Raouf Pasha through Cairola and the Khedive. Write to me i)o>U' vfsfante, Cairo. Many compliments at home.

" R. Gessi."

The last note Avritten by Gessi Pasha a few moments before leaving Khartoum, is as folloAvs : — " I cannot tell you what I am doing now, nor what I mean to do. EA'erything will depend on circumstances. I have suifered too much. I haAe been exposed to too many fatigues. The last catastrophe of the voyage has quite crushed me. Another in my