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194,
In aatoninhio ly bad verao$ the author called "for the
heart end eye of Heaconofiold.. " and bemoaned that the
Sudan might have been "gathered' within Imperial deatiniest
beneath the shelter of Victoriato rule. " Gordon in this
book was identified frith the aims of Imperial expansion in
Central Africa.
A pamphlet of 1889, Who in the White Panha ?A otory of
coming vim, thought that Gordon was still alive and
living in the Sudan, about to "reappear to fulfil some of
the great prophecien of the last day.. "
There were Gordon windows in cathedrals and pariah
churches and the Gordon cult had a distinctly religio/', ilitery
flavour,
-a Gordon Roy'a Brigade wan started in Liverpool,
and when Colonel Fred Burnaby, a loading member of the
Primrose Leaguo, wan killed in the Sudan, a Bradford meeting
decided to bi#ilc1 a drill hall na a memorial though a atatuo
and stained Clans windowwnre also aug eated
En land office was coiling Gordon medallions at one shilling
each, and the periodical began a priza Gordon poem
competition.
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(1)
(2)
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(1) published in London 1889.
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, 28th February i88.5.
ý3) bid, 21st February 1885,
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