which he states that this scheme represents the only policy by
which the civilising mission of this country can effectively be
accomplished. His lordship adds that it is only to the rich men of
this country that it is possible for me to look, yet I should be
glad for this appeal to find its way to all classes of our people.

"I further enclose a letter from the Baroness Burdett-Coutts,
whose devotion to the cause of Africa has been not the least of
her magnificent services. I forward, besides, an important
telegram from the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, and letters of great
weight from the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and the Lord Provost of
Glasgow. I would venture to address myself to the other great
municipalities of the Kingdom.

"Above all, it is in the hands of the Press of this country that I
place this cause. I look with confidence to your support in the
discharge of this high obligation.--I have the honour to remain,
yours faithfully,

"(Signed) KITCHENER OF KHARTOUM."

Lords Salisbury and Rosebery, and many more distinguished personages,
followed the example of the Sovereign and the Prince of Wales and
became supporters of the proposed institution. In the Metropolis as
well as in all the chief towns of the Kingdom the matter was taken up
enthusiastically. An influential committee was formed. The
subscriptions were showered in from home and abroad, wherever the
English tongue was spoken and Gordon had been known. In less than a
month the L100,000, and considerably more, were subscribed, and the
establishment of the Memorial College assured.

Lieut.-Colonel C. S. B. Parsons, R.A., Governor of Kassala and the Red
Sea littoral, to whom I have previously referred when we were
advancing against Omdurman, was menacing the dervish outpost of
Gedarif. Later on, when Ahmed Fadl was marching to reinforce his
master the Khalifa, Colonel Parsons was leading his Egyptians,
Abyssinian irregulars, and friendlies from Kassala up the head waters
or khor of the Atbara, far to the southward, and thence to a tributary
of the Blue Nile where the enemy had long had a garrison. The fifteen
years' campaign against Mahdism was nigh over, but not quite
concluded, with the victory of Omdurman. On receiving the check from
the gunboats, Fadl and his dervishes retreated up the Blue Nile to
where they had come from, their own country upon the bor