Chapter III: Part I: The Scramble for Africa

CHAPTER

I. A VISIT TO GREECE IN 1888 1

II. EGYPT UNDER TEWFIK, 1889 22

III. BRIGANDAGE IN EGYPT 40

IV. THE YOUNG KHEDIVE ABBAS, 1892 TO 1893 62

V. THE VEILED PROTECTORATE 84

VI. CROMER’S HEAVY HAND 108

VII. A SUMMER IN ENGLAND, 1894 140

VIII. A VISIT TO TUNIS AND TRIPOLI 153

IX. POLAND AND ARMENIA 175

X. THE ADVANCE ON DONGOLA 193

XI. THE JAMESON RAID 211

XII. SIWAH 242

XIII. OMDURMAN AND FASHODA 277

XIV. “SATAN ABSOLVED”—THE BOER WAR 302

XV. LAST YEAR OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 336

APPENDICES

I. MY PARIS DIARY OF 1870 381

II. MEMORANDUM AS TO THE EVACUATION OF EGYPT 406

III. MR. HERBERT SPENCER TO MR. BLUNT 410

INDEX 413