Abstract

General Gordon in the Sudan

The article presents information about the book "The Story of Chinese Gordon," by A. Egmont Hake. The return of General Charles Gordon to the Sudan in the present critical state of affairs gives a peculiar interest and importance to his experiences in that wild and distant portion of the world when he was governor there, under the late Khedive of Egypt, Ismail Pasha and for a short time under his successor. Gordon speaks of a cave crowded with robbers, murderers and ruffians of every description. They could put ten thousand men into the field. On the other side, the badness of the Egyptian Government, the worthlessness and demoralization of the Egyptian soldiery, rendered them quite incapable of holding their own against the formidable soldiers of the slave kings.