The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-07-31
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FRIDAY, JULY 81, 1885.
CEREBRAL GoRUON'S JOURNALS.

don during the siege of Khartoum,
have just been published by Messrs.
Kegan, Paul & Co. They comprise
the contents of the six previous
manuscript books which on the 22nd
of January last were handed over to
Sir Charles Wilson ut Mctemmeh by
the officer commanding General Cor
don's steamers, but to these are add
edappendlces comprising documents
of great value and historical inter-
est, as well as introductions by Gen
eral Gordon's kinsman, Mr.. Egmont
Hake, and the illustrious diarist's
brother, Sir Henry Gordon. As our
readers are aware, Gordon's diaries
form the sequel to the journal, which
was captured when Colonel Stewart
and his companions were murdered,
and which is believed-and with
good reason, as every one who has
read the remarkable letter from the
Mahdi describing that event in the
appendix to this book will feel--to
be now in the possession of that
mysterious parsonage. The journals
now published begin, with military
precision, on the following morning,
September 10, with the entry,
Colonel Stewart and NM. Power
and Herbin left during the night for
Dongola via Berber.'' They end on
the 18th of December following.
Among its earliest entries is an ex-
preston of undated faith in the
Soudanesc.
A NATIVE SCHOOL.
On one day they have ga regular
gaol delivery" letting out some
fifty, and sending to the Arabs nine
prisoners whom it was not deemed
advisable to keep in the town. Time
was yet found to look after the we'll
being of the young 1.-THE school
here is most interesting, as the
scholars get certain ration. 1t is
always full, viz, two hundred. Each
boy has wooden board, on which
his lesson is written, and On visiting
it the object of each boy is to be
called out to read his lesson, which
they do with a swaying motion of
the body, and in Il sing-song way,
like the Jews do at the wailing place
at Jerusalem and IN their syna-
gogues, from which we may infer
this was the ancient way of worship,
for the lessons are always from the
Koran. Little black doves with no
pretension to any nose, and not
more than two feet high, push for
ward to say the first ten letters of
the alphabet, which is all they know"
in association with this passage it is
noted that on that the (Sept. 10) the
census was completed, showing that
there were in all 1000 people in
the town. 1t is on the following day
that Gordon refers to the visit of
the two dervishes, bringing the odd
gift of dervish's dress from the
Mahdi.
THE EGYPTIAN TROOPS.
There are some curious entries of
u. mysterious Frenchman in the
enemy's territory who could be no
other than Oliver Pain, the we'll
known journalists though for some
unexplained reason Gordon seems
to have imagined that it was M.
Renan. For the Egyptians Gordon
constantly expresses his contempt,
though not without an occasional
excuse for their lack of spirit in the
cause. For the blacks, on the con-
trary, he has ever good word.
1.-The negro soldiers are wonder
fully clean; while the fellaheen and
Turkish lot are just the reverse the
former have the gloss of Il we'll
cleaned and polished boot, such as
the little London shoe-black loves
to turn out for penny"
THE LOSS OF LIFE IN THE sogDAN.
Amidst the daily record Of petty
harassments, varied by an occasional
entry of the arrival of fugitive
from the enemy's country, and the
notice of an earthquake which it is
rcmarkedis ''like the other ones, from
HOTJIl W SOuIu, VIC COlIlc uSulIl ul1
again upon passages of strongly
characteristic kind. For example
=" When one thinks of the enor,
nous loss of life which has takcr
place in the Soudan since 1880, anC
the general upset of all government
one cannot help feeling vicious
against Sir Auckland Colvin, Sil
Edward Malet, and Sir Charles
Dixie, for it is on account of those
three men, whose advice was takeI
by Ter Majesty's Government, that
all these sorrows are due. They
went in for the bondholders, ant
treated as chimerical any who though
differently from them b.
letting Sir Auckland Colvin and ST
Edward Malet stay in Egypt whel
he went there, got let into thei
ways. Time has shown the resul
of their policy, and we shall hear o
them no more"