Appendix.

441 European, and all the powers ought to insist that Gessi, who has done so much, and more than anyone else to suppress slavery, shall remain at his post. It is truly incredible. So much blood shed on the Gazelle, merely to return to the former miserable state of things !

" Gordon passed through here on the 21st with the suite, as private secretary of the new Viceroy of India, Lord Ripon.

" I send you a table of the exportation of ivory that took place during the last tAventy-five years. I owe it to the kindness of Mr. W. Yestendarp of the firm of A. Meyer, who does the largest business in ivory Avith all the European houses that deal in such articles.

"Mr. Westendarp, who, during the seventeen years of his commercial activity, has bought and sold more than a million elephant tusks, is the author of the article which I send you by this post ; it contains many novel things about the ivory trade, and the sources of production. The notes, you will find, show a great decrease in Egyptian ivory during last year. From the following table you will be able to take notes regarding the other countries.

Number of Year. Kilograms. Year. Kilograms.

137,000 1853 92,000 1867 1854 149,00) 1868 95,000 1855 123,000 1869 138,000 1856 79,000 1870 113,000 1857 144,000 1871 167,000 1858 202,000 1872 107,000 1859 174,000 1873 155,000 1860 154,000 1874 113,000 1861 114,000 1875 166,000 1862 186.000 1876 120,000 1863 115,000 1877 185,000 1864 166,000 1878 205,000 1865 97.000 1879 80,000 1866 130,000 " The Mudir of Siut, the Vice-Mudir, and the chief of the oflBce for the Abolition of Slavery, Achmed