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Auction: 20025 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 744

Sudan
Charles George Gordon
1877 (March) illustrated ALS written from Keren in Southern Sudan over five pages, one separate, to Col. Nugent. Gordon writes having "Just arrived from Massawah today. 4½ days more or less misery the first 2½ days were along the desert by sea, the other two days were along mountainous passes", Gordon describes being met "at the foot of the Massalut pass ... by a hoard of all sorts ... musicians & dancers ... however any emotion I felt at this disappeared when I was claimed as a countryman, by an Englishman dressed like an Abbysinian viz with a sheet wrapped around him ... a white man looks loathsome half naked" after having been released by Napier he returned to Abbysinia, "He wants to go back to Abbysinia & I will let him, for he longs to go. He has become a complete Abbysinian in all his ways". Gordon goes on to sketch a map of Keren and its occupation by Nunnzinger and mentions that "the Khedive has made me a Marshal or Murdi and has given me the uniform". Signed "C. G. Gordon".

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