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name will be indelibly united Avith the words : Humanity and Progress.' The following is a letter from Count Pennazzi, who accompanied Gessi from Suakim to Suez : — " To the Editor of the Esploratore.

" Suez, 2nd May, 1881.

" Gessi Pasha left Meshra-el-Rek on the 12th September, 1880, on board the steamer Safui, and reached Khartoum on the 19th January, 1881, after having suffered the most cruel moral and physical tortures ; after witnessing the death by famine of four-fifths of his six hundred men ; and after being cruelly punished by the Government which he had served for seAeral years with zeal and energy, and which, instead of thanking him, deprived him of his post.

" His anxiety to see his country once more, his family and relations and friends, impelled him to quit Khartoum in spite of his weak health, and after much suffering he arrived at Suakim on the 10th April. During the fourteen days that he stopped in that city his health gradually improved, so that on the 24th we carried him on board the Egyptian steamer Z<i(jazi(j ; he arrived safely in Suez on the 28th, where, by the aid of Vice-Consul Vitto, he was speedily removed to the French hospital. The four days of sea voyage had so weakened him, that from the time of our arrival in Suez we all despaired of his recovery. In fact he gradually sank, until on the 30th he was quite exhausted, and at 7.20 p.m., in full possession of his mental faculties, . ' The year after this event, Gessi 's remains were taken to Ravenna by care of the African Society in Naples. The nninicipality of Ravenna erected a nionnnient in the cemetery, designed by the scidptor Bagioli, and ropresentiiig, besides Gessi, two other illustrious Italian explorers, Matteucci and Negri.