There is one interesting incident in the career of Lord Kitchener which is not generally known.
After the fall of Khartoum in 1885 an enormous quantity of stores had to be destroyed owing to the want of transport. Among them was about a million rounds of ammunition, which was ordered to be thrown into the Nile. The duty of superintending its destruction fell to Kitchener, and when it was finished he found to his dismay that the contents of two of the boxes thrown into the river were not ammunition, but 10,000 gold sovereigns apiece. It is hardly probable that any attempt will be made to recover the lost treasre, for after the lapse of thirteen years it must be buried beyond all hope of recovery in the mud of which the bed of the Nile is composed.
Up to this day, the gold on the bottom of the Nile has not been located. It is still there, together with the large amount of nineteenth century ammunition, waiting to be found.
End of a Century
Filipino Atrocities
The Expulsion of Count Tolstoi
World Disasters: Air, Sea and Space
Tragedy in Klondyke
Churchill in the Anglo-Boer War
General Sir Archibald Hunter
