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Group of Convicts, Fashoda 



slave trade, 700 human chattels, slipped 

 through by the -scarcely concealed cogni- 

 zance of his royal master, Ismail Pasha. 

 Here Emin Pasha took his leave of 

 civilization when entering on that maze 

 of experiences, a mystery even to this 

 day, from which Stanley almost by force 

 rescued him, and here only a few years 

 ago Marchand from the westward de- 

 bouched on the Nile, expecting to find 

 men and arms from Abyssinia with 

 which an alliance might be made to per- 

 manently check the British progress up 

 the great river. 



The name Fashoda has disappeared 

 from official maps, documents, and pub- 

 lications, and Kodok, which suggests an 

 American advertising opportunity, been 

 substituted ; but Fashoda it is in all the 

 common speech of men everywhere and 

 Fashoda it seems likely to continue. 



It is interesting to note that the moral 

 effect of the Kitchener-Marchand in- 

 cident was most remarkable in all Egypt 

 as determining finally the dominant power 

 and indicating to what nation the future 



