Lord Cromer : a biography . the situa-tion. He had discovered that a new power of amost formidable kind had arisen in the land overwhich he had once ruled, and that it was nolonger possible for him to conjure with his on February 26 he writes to Sir EvelynBaring : If Egypt is to be quiet, Mahdi mustbe smashed up. Remember, that once Khartoumbelongs to Mahdi, the task will be far moredifficult ... I repeat that evacuation is possible,but you will feel effect in Egypt, and will beforced to enter into a far more serious affair inorder to guard Egypt. And again, two monthslater he writes
Lord Cromer : a biography . the situa-tion. He had discovered that a new power of amost formidable kind had arisen in the land overwhich he had once ruled, and that it was nolonger possible for him to conjure with his on February 26 he writes to Sir EvelynBaring : If Egypt is to be quiet, Mahdi mustbe smashed up. Remember, that once Khartoumbelongs to Mahdi, the task will be far moredifficult ... I repeat that evacuation is possible,but you will feel effect in Egypt, and will beforced to enter into a far more serious affair inorder to guard Egypt. And again, two monthslater he writes : I shall leave you the indelibledisgrace of abandoning the garrisons of Sennaar,Kassala, Berber, and Dongola, with the certaintythat you will eventually be forced to smash upthe Mahdi under great difficulties if you wouldretain peace in Egypt. On the very day, indeed, on which Gordonarrived at Khartoum, he took a step whicheloquently testified to the rapidity of his awaken-ing. He made a formal request upon the Cairo 0iM. CONSUL-GENERAL AT CALRO 105 Government that Zebehr Pasha—a man infamousas the largest dealer engaged in the Soudaneseslave traffic, and tragically associated with Gor-dons past history as the father of the rebelSuleiman, whom the then Governor-Generalof the Soudan had caused to be executed fiveyears before—might be released from the virtualimprisonment in which he was then held at Cairo,and sent to the Soudan to resume the position ofauthority which he had lost, together with hisliberty, by an unwise visit to the Egyptiancapital in 1876. On the very day of his depar-ture from Cairo, Gordon and Zebehr had had aninterview, arranged for them by Sir EvelynBaring at his own house, and the report of thisconference, as published in the Blue Book, doesundoubtedly show that Zebehr cherished animosityagainst Gordon, on account not only of the execu-tion of his son, but of the confiscation of hisown property as a consequence of his provedcomplicity in Suleimans rev
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