See Wingate, p. 553.

86 Granville to Baring, Dec. 1, 1883; Jan. 10, 1884.

87 Gordon had suppressed the Taiping rising in China in 1863. In 1874
he was appointed by the Egyptian government governor-general of the
equatorial provinces of central Africa. In 1876 he resigned owing to
trouble with the governor-general of the Soudan upon the suppression
of the slave trade, but was appointed (1877) governor-general of the
Soudan, Darfur, the equatorial provinces, and the Red Sea littoral.
He held this position till the end of 1879, suppressing the slave
trade with a strong hand and improving the means of communication
throughout the Soudan. He succeeded in establishing comparative
order. Then the new Egyptian government reversed Gordon's policy,
and the result of his six years' work soon fell to pieces.

88 Gordon's Letters to Barnes, 1885. Lord Granville took his ticket,
Lord Wolseley carried the General's bag, and the Duke of Cambridge
held open the carriage door.

M58 Character Of Gordon

89 Baring's Instructions to Gordon (Jan. 25, 1884).

90 Gladstone to Granville, Jan. 19, 1884.--"I telegraphed last night my
concurrence in your proceedings about Gordon: but Chester would not
awake and the message only went on this morning."

91 Dilke in House of Commons, Feb. 14, 1884. See also Lord Granville to
Sir E. Baring, March 28, 1884. In recapitulating the instructions
given to General Gordon, Lord Granville says: "_His_ (Gordon's)
_first proposal_ was to proceed to Suakin with the object of
reporting from thence on the best method of effecting the evacuation
of the Soudan.... His instructions, _drawn up in accordance with his
own views_, were to report to her Majesty's government on the
military situation in the Soudan," etc.

M59 Gordon's Instructions

92 For the full text of these instructions, see Appendix.

93 Baring to Granville, January 28, 1884.

94 Dated, _Steamship __"__Tanjore,__"__ at Sea, Jan. 22, 1884_.

95 Granville to Baring, March 28.

M60 Changes Of Policy

96 Feb. 23, 1885.

97 May 13, 1884.

M61 Zobeir

98 Wingate's _Mahdism_, p. 109.

99 Baring to Granville, Jan. 28.--"I had a good deal of conversation
with General Gordon as to the manner in which Zobeir Pasha should be
treated. Gen. Gordon enterta