Note 218 — JOURNAL.

It is important there should be no misconstruction placed on these words. Had General Gordon thought their death would benefit the Soudan, he would never have said when he urged their going down, “If you go, you do me a great service, i.e. do the Soudan a great service.” When he said, “I dare not, with my views, say their death is an evil,” he merely meant, “I dare not say that two brave, just, upright men are not happier in the future life than in the present one.”—Ed.