Charles Gordon - Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army

From the Portuguese Fetisso , a spell, or charm.

From August 1, 1838, slaves became free.

Thespesia, acacias, including the sensitive plant, abrus, convolvuli, palms, wild figs, tamarind, etc.

Of the Wesleyans.

Some account of L. E. L. is given in my separate book, Life on the Gold Coast . I consider that the cause of her death was disease of the heart, with which she was known to have been affected several years.

Still called “Napoleon.”

Under the title of Contributions to Ornithology .

Commander, afterwards Sir W. Winniett, R.N. He died on the Coast.

Captain Losack.

Lieutenant Bingham. He lost his health during the expedition, and shortly thereafter died in England.

C. Swaine.

The brig Governor Maclean .

Messrs. Brodie Cruickshank and Frank Swanzy.

Quako Acko by name.

Slave-ships captured by British men-of-war were taken to Sierra Leone, their cargoes there transferred to the establishment so-named.

On June 22, 1848.

Coccoloba uvifera .

Sorghum vulgare .

With my friend J. A. Bostock.

General Sir Henry King, K.C.B.

December 22, 1848.

January 13, 1849.

February 21.

Out of 570 officers and men who went into action at Albuhera, the commanding officer, 22 other officers, and more than 200 men were placed hors de combat . The “dead were found lying as they fought in ranks; every wound was in front.”

Davenish.

Dedicated to St. Molash, who died A.D. 563.

The manufacture of Beleek ware was then a thing of the future.

See Illustrated London News , October 12, 1849.

The ceremony solemnized by the Rev. J. A. Grant, of Nairn.

Major and Mrs. Shadforth.

Another statement is that his birth took place in Upper Merrion Street, Dublin; his baptism in St. Peter’s Church.

That was in 1850.

Parliament, June, 1845.

August 31, 1850.

London Gazette , August 12, 1850.

Born on April 12, 1851.

Killed at Inkerman.

London Gazette , May 23, 1851.