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pitiful, although aid flowed in with promptness also of a disagreement with the Egyptian ao- 

 and liberality from all parts of Germany. The thorities. In 1877 he returned to the Upper 

 Emperor subscribed $150,000, and the Reichs- Nile as Governor-General of the Soudan. He 

 tag granted $750,000. The German-Ameri- went around through all the provinces that year 

 cans displayed even greater generosity than the and succeeded in pacifying the natives in a 

 sufferers' own fellow-countrymen. Their gifts measure by dismissing extortionate officials and 

 of money drew forth from the German press striking the rebellious elements with fear by 

 and Government warm expressions of kindness the rapidity of his movements and his energy 

 and appreciation. Of about $150,000 distrib- of character. A formidable rebellion in Dar- 

 uted nearly the whole was raised in America, four was quickly subdued. A long and tedious 



Minor Events. Celebrations and festivals sue- war with Abyssinia was brought to an end but 

 ceeded one another through the year. On Sep- his efforts to establish a permanent good under- 

 tember 28th the Emperor unveiled the national standing with that country were unavailing, 

 monument on the Niederwald, near Rudesheim, He captured hundreds of slave-caravans and 

 designed by Prof. Schilling, of 

 Dresden, and erected in commem- 

 oration of the victories over the 

 French in 1870-'71. A Hygienic 

 Exhibition was held in Berlin in 

 April, and in July an International 

 Art Exhibition in Munich. 



GORDON, Major -General Charles 

 George, English traveler and sol- 

 dier, was born in 1830, and is a 

 younger son of Lieutenant-General 

 H. E. Gordon. He entered the 

 military service as Lieutenant of 

 Engineers in 1852, and took part 

 in the Crimean "War, in which he 

 was wounded before Sebastopol. 

 At the conclusion of the war he 

 was appointed on the commission 

 intrusted with the delimitation of 

 the boundary between Turkey and 

 Russia in Asia. After serving in 

 the expedition to China, he re- 

 mained in that country, and to- 

 ward the end of 1861 undertook an 

 exploring expedition totheChotow 

 and Kalgan gates in the Great Wall 

 across Shensi, passing through the 

 hitherto unknown capital of that 

 province, Tiaynen. On his return 

 to Peking he was appointed by 

 the Emperor in March, 1863, com- 

 mander-in-chief of the army sent 

 to put down the Taiping rebellion. 

 Mainly through his efforts the re- 

 bellion was suppressed in two 

 years. In the English army he 

 was promoted to be lieutenant- 

 colonel in 1864, and in December of the same 

 year decorated with the order of the Bath. He 

 was vice-consul in the delta of the Danube from 

 1871 to 1873. He then undertook an expedition 

 to Central Africa under the auspices of the 

 Viceroy of Egypt, who appointed him Military 

 Governor of the Equatorial Provinces. He as- 

 cended the Nile in a steamboat to the Albert 

 Nyanza, combated the slave-trade, and in April, 

 1875, annexed Darfour to the dominions of the 

 Khedive. The Khedive bestowed on him the 

 title of pasha. He returned to Cairo in 1876, 

 and refused to undertake another expedition to 



GENERAL CHARLES Q. GORDON. (Prom pen-and-ink drawing.) 



cut off the source of the supply of slaves to a 

 considerable extent ; yet, through the lack of 

 co-operation on the part of the Egyptian of- 

 ficials, he was unable to stop the traffic com- 

 pletely. In January, 1880, he retired from the 

 governorship of the Soudan. He accepted the 

 post of secretary to the Marquis of Ripon, Vice- 

 roy of India, but resigned upon reaching Bom- 

 bay, in June of that year. He took command of 

 the Royal Engineers in Mauritius in May, 1881, 

 and retired from active service the same year, 

 with the rank of major-general The Cape Gov- 

 ernment, in March, 1882, commissioned him 



the Soudan, on account of the insufficiency of to settle the Basuto question. He had reached 

 the military force placed at his disposal, and an understanding with the Basutos, when 



