The Prince of Wales has published a letter, dated August
26, 1871, but only just received from Sir S. Baker. He had been 175 days taking his fleet and soldiers from Khartoum to Gondokoro, -a distance of 700 miles, the difficulties of the navigation being almost insuperable. He had to cut a road through the river vegetation nearly the whole way, lost men daily from malaria, and was of course passively obstructed by all the officials except the Khedive, they disapproving altogether of the suppression of the slave trade. The Baris also, the tribe most strictly allied to the -slave-catchers, give great trouble, but Sir Samuel pronounces his black troops excellent, and apparently does not doubt that he shall establish a regular government at Gondokoro, though it will be a 'work of time and patience, and he can only write once a year. He is building a town and fort and devising the subjugation of the Buis, and altogether making himself felt in an energetic style for which, in Europe, there seems to be no room.
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