The Hawaiian gazette., 1885-04-08
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myself free to act according to circum-
stances. / shall hold on here as long as [
can, and If can suppress the rebellion 1
shall do So. If cannot, / shall retire 20
the Equator, and leave youthe indelbledis
grace of'abandoning the garrsons Of Sen
mar, hassala, Berber. DonEola. with the
certainty that You VIII eventually be forced
% smash mp the Mahdi under great diff
culties ifyou would retain peacein Egypt"
At the same time Gordon said he was
quite hemmed In and had provisions for
about five months; and in his desperation
he proposed TO appeal to the millionaires
of America for fund Of Sl,OO0.O0O. The
careless attitude Of the British Govern
meut toward him may be seen in Lord
GranylIles despatch OF April %: Cor
don should be informed at once that we
do not proprose TO supply him with Tur-
ksh OF other force Add expressions both
of respect and gratitude for his gallant
and self-sacuhClng conduct and for the
good he has achieved"
On June lOw0rd came that Berber had
been captured and the inhabitants massa-
cred by the Insurgents khartOum was
closely beseiged through the summer and
the Government did nothing until August
>. when the House of Commons was asked
Tor a vote of credit of SI.5OO.OOO. to begin
| operations f0r Gordon's relief A few
] days later the Mudir of Dongola received
l q letter from Gordon, asking how many
I troops were coming 10 his relief. and by
what road. At this time Major Kitchener
Z was at DOugOla, Colonel COlville at Sen
I neh, and Sir Evelyn Wood on his way TO
/ Ass0Uan and Wady Halfa. where a consi
derable Egyptian force had been gathered.
/ Much wraugling followed, as to the best
route to follow 10 reach hhartoum. and at
last the Nile route was decided upon. and
am expedition fitted ont under General
Lord Nglseley, with a corps Of Canadian
! boatmen to pass the Nile rapids a camel
I corps for service on the desert, etc. Lord
4 Wolseley left England to lead this expedi-
/ tion on August 81
Meantime Gordon had been making the
/ best Of his position at khartoum El
/ Alahdi having rejected his offer to recOg-
/ nize him as Sultan of hgrdOfan Gordon
7 took the field against him. In his first
/ battle he was unsuccessful, owing to the
! treaclery of two Pachas, whom he imme
/ dlately sentenced to death He issued
/ bills, which the merchants took upon his
I personal guarantee. and in this way had
+ money for soldiers and for supplies. He
raised an army by promising freedom to
/ negroes. He protected that army from
I the assaults of q superior force by plant
I ing t0rpedOes in front Of his lines. He
/ converted river steamers into marine fort
] resses by plating them with iron and
. building towers on them In various ways
I he waEed war SO theoretically that the
I siege was raised after three months. Des-
/ c9ndlng the river he set fire to Berber. and
/ sent Colonel Stewart in a steamer to open
] communications with Cairo. HIS messen-
/ ger was tTeacher0usly murdered by a
sleilI before lie could reach D0ugola
/ September saw the 1Iudir of Dongola
. triumphant over the rebels of kUrt News
I was received from Gordon occasionally
/ during September and October Then
/ rumgr- of the fall of hLartOum and con
Trajectory counter Tumors began to come
IN, and when the British Parliament met
/ On October % the outlook was gloomy
/ Lord Nolseley left Wady Halfa for Sarras
. on October ., having, in all. 5000 men
. On November 3 be reached DOng0la Two
/ days later came word that Gordon. reply.
. ing TO EI MaLdI's summons to surrender.
/ had defautly declared his ability 10 hold
" hLutoum against all corners for a dozen
. years. More encouraging news came the
/ next week. that FL AIahdi was being abgn
] d0lea by his followers BY November lq
. there were 1900 British troops at OF south
/ of Assguau. and steady progress was made
. toward kLwtom until the end of the
year
! st the beginning of 1855 word was re-
. ce,vad from Gordon that be was all right
. and still holding Khut0um Learning
shat E. MahdI's men came for water al
night TO wells at Omdermau. across
the river from Khart0um. be had
sent armed boats TO guard the wells and
. prevent access thereto thereby causing
great suffering among the rebels. many Of
whom died from smallpox and dvsenterv
/ The Mahd withdrew with his army tr
'Jabbara. two days march from Omder
man. Several tribes subsequently, de-
/ serted The lIah1i then told the nrinci
/ pal chiefs that be intended to marcel
against The AIudir Of Douu5Ia The
chiefs urltass6d readiness 90 follow. If ht
MaLdl would charm off the bullets of the
enemy hy leading instead Of following hi.
. troops. The next day the Nabdf told tIr
chiefs be had seen iu a dream that tho
Audlr was @ saint against whom il wa.
useless 10 fight This statement caused
D great alarm in the Mahdi,= camp. Cor