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THE EASTERN SOUDAN. 
- BY — 
COLONEL C. S. PARSONS, R.A. 
{Chief Staff Officer, Woolwich District). 
(A Lecture delivered at the Royal Artillery Institution, Woolwich, Thursday, 20th April, 1899) 
MAJOE-GENERAL J. F. MAURICE, C.B., IN THE CHAIR. 
[The Secretary, It. A.I., by direction of the Chairman, read letters and telegrams of apology and 
regret for unavoidable absence from General Sir F. C. A. Stephenson, G.C.B., late commanding 
the Forces in Egypt, and from the following officers who had taken part in the Khartoum 
Expedition of 1898:—General Sir A. Hunter, K.C.B., D.S.O., late commanding Egyptian Division; 
Major-General Sir H. M. L. Bundle, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., R.A., late Chief of the Staff; 
Major-General Sir W. F. Gatacre, K.C.B., D.S.O., late commanding British Division; 
Commander Colin Keppel, C.B., D.S.O., R.N., late Commander of the Nile gun-boat, flotilla; 
Major-General Hon. N. G. Lyttleton, C.B., late commanding 2nd Brigade British Division; 
and Lieut.-Colonel H. M. Lawson, E.E., who commanded the Arab levies. 
T HE Chairman: —Ladies and Gentlemen,it is hardly necessary for me 
to introduce to you Colonel Parsons, Royal Artillery, whose name 
was so prominently before the public a few months ago as the Governor of 
the Eastern Soudan and Commander of the Egyptian forces at the capture 
of Gedarif and in the subsequent operations in that part of the count¬ 
ry, and who is now my Chief Staff Officer in the Woolwich District. 
I will therefore ask Colonel Parsons to kindly deliver his lecture. 
Colonel Parsons :—General Maurice, ladies and gentlemen, before 
commencing the subject of the Lecture, I venture to draw your atten¬ 
tion for one moment to this rough map of the 
Eastern Soudan which is not, I fear, sufficiently clear 
to be visible from the back seats. It shows the 
Nile running down from Eashoda to the 3rd cataract, below 
Dongola; the eastern fork represents the Blue Nile. The Atbara 
runs into the Nile south of Berber. Traversing the north-east quarter 
of the map is the Khor Baraka. The dotted line thus- 
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of the map. 
