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I came flying into this station in marshal's uniform, and before the men had time to unpile arms, I had arrived with only one man with me. I could not help it; the escort did not come in for an hour and a half afterwards. Writing from Oomchanga near Fascher, the capital of Darfour, he says: "All this revolt is the fault of the Bashi-Bazouks.
During one week, on his way from Oomchanga to Toashia, he thinks he must have taken about six hundred slaves, and he puts down the number that had lost their lives in the last four years from the cruelty of the dealers to have been at least one hundred thousand in Darfour alone.
As soon as Gordon had arranged matters with the Khedive and entered upon his Governor-Generalship he wrote to Burton, offering him the post of Governor-General of Darfur. "OOMCHANGA, DARFUR, June, 21, 1877. "You now, I see, have 600 pounds sterling a year, a good climate, quiet life, good food, etc., and are engaged in literary inquiries, etc., etc.
Much as he loathed Trieste and the life of forced inaction there, he felt this might be to exchange the frying-pan for the fire. Pending Burton's answer, Gordon followed up his first letter by two more: "OOMCHANGA, DARFUR, June 27, 1877. "Thanks for your letter May 9, received to-day. I have answered. . . . Would you be bothered with him? I feel certain you would not.
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