Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-14

flee of the precious life of Bishop HAN
nington-
ITO render effective and of commercial
benefit to the United States my achieve
ments i'm the Nile basin and Egypt lacked
q government stronger than Egypt. The
State Department. at that time had not
awakened to its proper interests. 1t was
my misfortune and the misfortune OF my
country.
"Of Sir Harry Jollnston's criticism OF
Col. Gordon's ambitions in central Africa
much may be said, but l have written him
briefly that his criticisms were made from
the British point of view. I was an Amer
ico-Egyptian officer In Egypt since 1852
a member of the American military mis-
sion sent there with the secret mission
OF overturning Mr.. Gladstone's 'unutter-
able Turk by armed revolution, to es-
ia blish the independence of Egypt and ex-
tend the limits of Egypt to the equator.
Gen. Gordon's Ambition.
when l left Gordon at Regal in April.
1915. to command his expedition to the
Juba (the land forces) 1 understood that
Gordon had become deeply attached to
1smairs ambitions. and that his own am
bition was to become the Sultan of the
Sudan.
II did not subscribe to GOrdons ideas
or methods, and when questioned thereon
I have criticised Them but not so harshly
as did his best friend, Sir Richard Bur
ton, in the Academy I always praised
Gordon's disintereSted qualities, his re-
markable purity of character. and. above
all these, the valiant and ambitious sol
der.
when the expedition sailed from Suez.
in September 1878. the Sultan of Zanzi-
bar. Said Bargasch. was the guest of the
khedive in Cairo. L assumed the khedive
had arranged with Bargasch for Gordon S
q in the Indian / was
surprised. then, when Admiral Mckillop
commanding our naval forces, a. brave
and dashing Scotchman. attacked and
captured Bravo and ksmayu.
Welcomes a Truce.
MY letter TO Sir Harry concluded with
the expression of my appreciation of his
generous desire to do me justice, having
done me great injustice both in Europe
and America. If there was no desire on
the part of English geographical circles to
be unfair 10 me, as asserted, + would be
glad to welcome a truce 10 a conflict
which has been exceedingly distasteful to
me from its inception. now more than a
generation.
Great was my surprise 10 receive a
letter in reply from Sir Harry JohnSi on
dated on board r. S. Teutonic. October
20 1908. near New York, announcing his
arrival and asking my permission that he
interview me for the London Times. L
replied accedng to his request and ask
ing in turn that ] might interview him
for The Washington Star.
''Apprised of Sir Harry's presence in
Washington, I reminded him on the 9th
instant of my letter and propounded to
him number of questions. to which he
has promised TO give careful considera-
ton
When asked If Sir Harry JohnSt on
would advocate his claim at the proposed
Spoke anniversary, Col. Chaille-Long re-
piled: Such was Sir Harry's generous
gave me place with Spoke and Baker in
the final solution OF the once mysterious
question of the Nile sources.
What place will be accorded Stanley"
asked the Star representative.
Stanley has no place in the discovery OF
the Nile sources proper" said the colonel
The lakes south OF the Albert NyanZa are,
| in fact extensions of that lake. precisely
as kodja, Quania. Salisbury, Chosa. etc.
are part of the Lake Ibrahim. Besides.
| II Stanley is admitted as Nile source
discoverer, Gen. Gordon may be attributed
| the priority of discovery of the lake
| called Albert Edward. and this fact is
| mentioned in my book L Egypte ct SEES
Provinces Perdues page 10, where | say
| speaking of a map of the Nile made by
Gordon in 1919: Gordon. in letter to the
| khedive. dated April 70. 1876 mentioned q
| GROUP. of lakes which existed south of the
Albert"
Sir Harry Johnston's attention was
drawn by the representative Of The Star
| to the remarks made by Col. Chaille-
Long as to the error. in attributing d
previous journey to- Lake Ibrahim by
| Piaggia. Sir Harry promptly recognized
the error into which he had been led by
the manifest typographical error of the
| Bulletin of the Societe Khedurale de
Geographic. which he had, cited. in print
| ing 1870 In place of 1876. Il shall be
glad" said Sir Harry, IF you will make
that explanation in justice to Col. Chaille-
Long and to myself