A². Letters from Abderrahman en Najoomi and Abdullah en Noor to General Gordon, and his reply 404 B. Letter from George Calamatino to General Gordon, and his reply 409 D. Letter from the Ulema of Kartoum to the Mahdi 410 E. Letter from Faki Mustapha to Cassim el Moos 420 E¹. Upon the Slave Convention 425 F. Memorandum upon the defeat of Hicks’s army 426 G. Letter from General Gordon to Ibrahim Abdel Kader 428 K. Letter from Abdel Kader to General Gordon 430 L. Letters from Abderrahhman en Najoomi and Abdullah en Noor to General Gordon 432 M. Letter from General Gordon to Sheikh Abderrahhman en Najoomi, with his reply 438 N. Letters from Colonel Stewart and M. Herbin to General Gordon 442 BOOK IV. P. Letter from Abou Gugliz to General Gordon 447 Q. Letters from Fakirs, and from Faki Mustapha, to the Commandant of Omdurman Fort 447 R. Two letters from Slatin Bey to General Gordon 452 S. Letter from Slatin Bey to the Austrian Consul 455 The Insurrection of the False Prophet, 1881-83 456 BOOK V. Q. Letters from Saleh Ibrahim of Galabat and Greek Consul at Adowa to General Gordon and Greek Consul at Kartoum 511 R. Letter from Slatin Bey to General Gordon 519 T. Letter from the Mudir at Sennaar to General Gordon 520 U. Letter from the Mahdi to General Gordon with two enclosures, with General Gordon’s answer; and letters from General Gordon to the Mudir of Dongola 522 V. Manifesto of the Mahdi to the inhabitants of Kartoum 539 X. Letter from Major Kitchener to General Gordon, enclosing one from Herr Roth, and a telegram 546 BOOK VI. Y. Towfik’s Firman, and notice by General Gordon 550 AB. Letter from Khalifa Abdullah Mahomed to General Gordon 553 CD. Petition of the Ulema at Kartoum to the Khedive 556 EF. Organisation of the Soudan under Zubair 557 INTRODUCTION. “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. * * * * *