Chapter II: Preface: v

CHAPTERS

I. THE DUFFERIN SETTLEMENT 1

II. SIR EVELYN BARING ARRIVES AT CAIRO 38

III. GORDON’S WORK ON THE WHITE NILE 87

IV. GORDON IN PALESTINE 122

V. GORDON’S LAST MISSION 144

VI. WAS GORDON DISOBEDIENT? 181

VII. EXCITEMENT ABOUT GORDON IN LONDON 207

VIII. MY EXCLUSION FROM EGYPT 245

IX. CONSTANTINOPLE IN 1884 284

X. GORDON’S DEATH. CHAOS 344

XI. RANDOLPH CHURCHILL AND THE FOURTH PARTY 412

XII. THE GENERAL ELECTION OF 1885—RANDOLPH AT THE 471
INDIA OFFICE—DRUMMOND WOLFF’S MISSION

NOTE ABOUT THE MAHDI’S DEATH 505

APPENDICES

A. UNPUBLISHED GORDON PAPERS 509

B. MR. BLUNT’S ORIENTAL CORRESPONDENCE 539

C. CORRESPONDENCE WITH DOWNING STREET 568

D. CORRESPONDENCE WITH LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL 608

E. ARABI’S PROGRAMME OF 1883, AND MOHAMMED ABDU’S 617
VIEWS

F. EXTRACTS FROM LADY ANNE BLUNT’S DIARY 627

G. LETTERS TO MR. BLUNT ALLUDED TO IN, AND 630
EXEMPLIFYING, THE TEXT

INDEX 645

GORDON AT KHARTOUM