It was only 776 A.D. that Mount Ararat
of Armenia became the site of the Ark's descent. Koran says Al Judi
(Ararat) is holy land. After Flood the remnants went east to Plain of
Shimar. Had they gone east from the Al Judi, near Mosul, or from
Armenian Ararat, they could never have reached Shimar. Shem was
Melchizedek, etc., etc.
"With kind regards to Mrs. Burton and you, and the hope you will send
me the manuscript,
"Believe me,
"Yours sincerely,
"C. G. GORDON."
"P.S.--Did you ever get the 1,000 pounds I offered you on part of
ex-Khedive for the Mines of Midian?"
Some six months after the date of this letter Gordon left England for
the Soudan, and later went to Kartoum, with what result all the world
knows. Burton said, when the Government sent Gordon to Kartoum, they
failed because they sent him alone. Had they sent him with five hundred
soldiers there would have been no war. It was just possible at the time
that Burton might have been sent instead of Gordon; and Isabel, dreading
this wrote privately to the Foreign Office, unknown to her husband, to
let them know how ill he then was.
The Burtons were profoundly moved at the death of Gordon; they both felt
it with a keen sense of personal loss. Isabel relates that in one of the
illustrated papers there was a picture of Gordon lying in the desert, his
Bible in one hand, his revolver in the other, and the vultures hovering
around.
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