CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Preface v " 



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 4° 



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 14° 



VIII. A Visit to Tunis and Tripoli 153 



IX. Poland and Armenia 175 



X. The Advance on Dongola 193 



XL 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 



