TURKISH EMPIRE-EGYPT.


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                        [Inclosure 1 in No. 92.-Translation.]
                                                      KHARTOOM, April 23.

  Recent and trustworthy news received here relative to tihe expedition of
Sir Samuel
Baker informs us that his excellency is at Fatoukra in good health.
  A native merchant, named Bokour, has arrived at Khartoom from Gondokoro
and
the Upper Nile, bringing direct and.personal news of the expedition of Sir
Samuel
Baker. He reports that Baker and all his party were, at the date of his departure
from Gondokoro, safe and well at the station of Fatoukra, (supposed to be
about fifty
miles south of Gondokoro.) He says that while he was at Gbndokoro a messenger
ar-
rived in that village from Baker Pasha, and that he heard the messenger give
an order
o the son of the King, ordering him to send two hundred additional soldiers
to Pa-
toukra.
  (Query: Were the soldiers sent?)



                             [Inclosure 2 in No. 92.1

Colpy of an extract from a letter from M.0 . Higginbotham, published in the
Times of April
                      21, 1873, (translated from the French.)

  I have received a letter from my brother, chief engineer of the expedition
of Sir
Samuel Baker, dated at Gondokoro, September, 1872, which I would have sent
to you
if my brother had not made me promise that his letters should not be made
public.
  The entire expedition was at Gondokoro on the 23d January, 1872. Sir Samuel,
with two hundred men, left immediately afterward, directing his course toward
Lake
Nyanza. The natives created difficulties, and, judging by the letter in question,
you
had reasons for fearing that Baker had been killed. I think, however, that
had he
run such great danger he would have called to his aid the balance of his
forces, (eight
hundred men,) which he left in charge of my brother Edwin.





                                  No. 782.

                          Mr.. Babbitt to Mr. Fish.

No. 110.1                AGENCY AND CONSULATE-GENERAL
                               OF THE UNITED STATES IN EGYPT,
                         Alexandria, July 1, 1873.   (Received July 22.)
   SIR: I have the honor to inform the Department that a telegram was
received yesterday, dated June 29ý by the English consul-general here,
from Sir Samuel Baker; in which he announces his safe arrival at Khar.
toum with all the other Europeans, and the complete success of the ex-
pedition, which had conquered and pacified the country as far as the
equator.
   A dispatch from the governor-general of the Soudan to the Egyptian
government confirms the news of the safe arrival at Khartoom of Baker
and his expedition, and adds that an English engineer (probably Mr.
figginbotham) had died at Gondokoro.
   I have reason to believe that the Egyptian government does not regard
the success of this expedition as- assured so cnapletely as the dispatch
from Sir Samuel Baker would indicate,
        I have, &c.,
                                               H. A. BABBITT,
                                                    Vice- Con8ul- General.