The Death of Gessi Pasha.

421 and looking death frankly in the face with calmness and serenity, he breathed his last.

" Gessi is one of the glories of Italy, and his name will be joined to the words Humanity and Progress, because, by his means, the slave trade and slaverj" received a violent blow, as the liberated provinces of Balir-el-Ghazal, Monbuttu, Makraka and Hofratel-N alias can prove, which provinces formerly furnished eighty thousand slaves a year to the Jelabba merchants. The now unmolested natives will gratefully remember their abii (father), who rescued them and their families from the terrible scourge.

" Gessi is dead, and the sympathy of the liberated people and of all those who have a heart must console his family for their loss.

" The funeral took place yesterday at four p.m., and the remains-- were followed to the grave by the Italian colony, headed by Vice-Consul Vitto, by all the other consuls, the Governor, many Europeans, and half a company of soldiers.

"May this tribute of respect be some compensation for this sad loss, which will be felt most of all by the mother, wife, and children of poor Gessi. May they remember that he sacrificed his life for the good of liumanit}' ; that the benedictions of the people will follow him eternally, and that the whole world owes him a tribute of gratitude.

" I cannot conclude without recording the brotherly friendship which Gessi received from Vice-Consul Vitto, from Signor Marino, the Consulate Chancellor, and from the Director of the Post, Signor Giordano, who rivalled each other in marks of affection, remaining constantly at his side during his illness, comforting him in his last moments and receiving his last wishes.

" Peknazzi."

In the number for 18th January, 1883, the Antislavery Re'porier published the report of Romolo Gess