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LECTURE ON EGYPT. 03
The district entrusted to Colonel Gordon, as Gover-
nor of the Soudan, embraced all the districts along the
Abyssinian frontier from the Eed Sea to the Upper Blue
and White Niles, as far as the Equatorial Lakes, and
the whole of Kordofan and Darfour. This immense
territory, divided into about a dozen districts, for each
of which separate accounts of revenue and expenditure
had to be kept, was most ably governed by Colonel
Gordon, and the slave trade was by him practically
suppressed. He was anxious to have my Soudan Eail-
way completed to Ehartoum, but being prudent as well
as enterprising, when he found the available revenue
unequal to the expenditure, he at once agreed to its
postponement. Colonel Gordon has now retired from
the Governorship of the Soudan, and the Egyptian
Government has thus lost an administrator whose ability
and integrity have reflected honour on Egypt and
gained the confidence of the whole civilised world as
regards the permanent abolition of slavery in the dis-
tricts under his control.
Since I left Egypt in March last, the Porte, under The
pressure from the English and French Governments, Khedive
has required Ismael Pasha, the late Khedive, to abdicate
in favour of his son Tewfik Pasha.
Prince Mehemet Tewfik was born in 1852, and in
January, 1873, married to Emineh Khanum, daughter
of the late II Hami Pasha, by whom lie has three
children, two boys and a girl. He has no second wife,
and does not, I believe, intend to have one. He is
The district entrusted to Colonel Gordon, as Gover-
nor of the Soudan, embraced all the districts along the
Abyssinian frontier from the Eed Sea to the Upper Blue
and White Niles, as far as the Equatorial Lakes, and
the whole of Kordofan and Darfour. This immense
territory, divided into about a dozen districts, for each
of which separate accounts of revenue and expenditure
had to be kept, was most ably governed by Colonel
Gordon, and the slave trade was by him practically
suppressed. He was anxious to have my Soudan Eail-
way completed to Ehartoum, but being prudent as well
as enterprising, when he found the available revenue
unequal to the expenditure, he at once agreed to its
postponement. Colonel Gordon has now retired from
the Governorship of the Soudan, and the Egyptian
Government has thus lost an administrator whose ability
and integrity have reflected honour on Egypt and
gained the confidence of the whole civilised world as
regards the permanent abolition of slavery in the dis-
tricts under his control.
Since I left Egypt in March last, the Porte, under The
pressure from the English and French Governments, Khedive
has required Ismael Pasha, the late Khedive, to abdicate
in favour of his son Tewfik Pasha.
Prince Mehemet Tewfik was born in 1852, and in
January, 1873, married to Emineh Khanum, daughter
of the late II Hami Pasha, by whom lie has three
children, two boys and a girl. He has no second wife,
and does not, I believe, intend to have one. He is