The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-07-31

always lelJ We were QOOllc(t w COulS
face to face ere the matter was end
ed. l toss up IN my mind whether,
if the place is taken, to blow up the
Palace and all in it, or else to be
taken, and, with Gods help, to
maintain the faith, and if necessary
to suffer for it (Which is most pro-
bable). The blowing up of the
Palace is the simplest, while the
other means long and weary suffer-
ing and humiliation of all sorts.
think | shall elect for the last, not
from fear of death, but because the
former has moro or less the faint of
suicide"
4 RIVAL 10 MIR. GLADSTONE.
On one occasion General Gordon
pauses to note: "Mr. Gladstone has
q rival up here in shirt collars. Mo-
manned Bey Tbrahim appeared to-
day with regular wings, rather rag
ged--his collars up to his ears
regular orthodox patterns. The
margin is ornamented with profile
of Mohammed Bey 1brahim-or so
much of that individual as his shirt
collars permitted to be seen-which
fully bears out this description. In
one place he thus lightly records an
unpleasant incident: GA scorpion in
bath sponge this morning. 1t stung
me upon the finger. I murdered it,
and so am quits. / wonder whether
any analysis has been made of the
scorpions and cobra's poison. This
is the sixth time / have been stung."
GoRDoN's VIEW OF HIS MISSION.
From the numerous passages in
which the diarist records his view of
his mission and his duties, the fol-
lowing may be selected as a repre-
sentative example :-"Stewart will
bear witness that my whole efforts
have been, and will be, directed to
carry out my instructions, viz, the
withdrawal of the garrisons and refu-
gees, and had it not been for the
defeat Of Mahomet Ali Pasha, l
should have got out at least two
thirds of those at Khartoum and
Senaar. l was engaged in a certain
work.. e., to take down the garri-
sons, &c. 1t suited me altogether
to accept this work (when once it
was decided on to abandon the Sou
dan), which, to my idea, is prefer
able to letting it be under those
wretched effete Egyptian Pashas.
Her Majesty's Government agreed
TO send me. 1t was mutual affair ;
they owe me positively nothing, and
! owe them nothing. A member of
Parliament, in one of our last re-
ceived papers, asked Whether Of
ticers were not supposed to go where
they were ordered?' / quite agree
with his view, but it cannot be said
l was ordered to go. The subject
was too complex for any order. 1t
was will you go and try!' and my
answer was, 'Only too delighted.
AS for all that may be said of our
holding out, &C., &c., it is all
twaddle, for we had no option; as
for all that may be said as to why l
did not escape with Stewart, it is
simply because the people would
not have been such fools to have let
me go, so there is an end to those
great-coats of self : sacrifice, &c.
Place before men the chance of sue
cess by holding out, and the GER
tainty Of death, or miserable cap
tivity, if they give in, there is not
much credit in holding out. must
say IN ne the people not letting me
CO. that even if they had been will
ing for me to go l should not have
gone and left them in their misery.
l think L say truly, l have never
asked for British expedition. !
asked for POO men to be sent to
Berber at time when, Graham
having beaten Osman Digma, one
might have supposed there was no
risk for those 200 men, and l asked
for Zubair.'
As to the future, again and again
General Gordon dwells upon his
favorite alternatives: ''Zubair or
the Turks" Even a gift of two
millions sterling to the Turks would,
i'll his view, bei''a cheap solution :"
but it does not appear precisely upon
what ground he considers that the
proved horrors of Turkeys rule
over her provinces, or the notorious
slave-hunting associations of Zebehr
promised better, from the point OF
! view of the welfare of the Soudanese
than the rule of the Mahdi.
INDIA.
Ina note upon India the diarist
! observes: -s'India, to me, is not al
advantage; it accustomed our mer
to a style of life which they cannot
keep up in England; it deteriorates
, our women. If we kept the sea-
| coast, it is all that we want. 1t is
the centre of all petty intrigue
while if our energy were devoted
+ elsewhere it would produce tenfold
, India sways all our policy to on
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