Results 175

4. The Soudan Contingent 185

5. A Time of Retrenchment 192

6. My Vision Fulfilled 200

7. The Great Strikes 209

8. The Introduction of "Universal Service," and
Two Voyages Home 215

9. Military Adviser to the Australian Colonies in London 224

10. Off to the South African War 232

11. With Lord Roberts in South Africa 238

12. In Command of a Mounted Column 244

13. Some South African Reminiscences 252

Part III

1. Organizing the Commonwealth of Australia 263

2. Commandant of Victoria 273

3. Commandant of New South Wales 281

4. Lord Kitchener's Visit to Australia 290

5. The American Naval Visit 302

6. Chief of the General Staff 308

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

BRIGADIER-GENERAL J. M. GORDON, C.B. _Frontispiece_
WARDHOUSE, ABERDEENSHIRE 10
KILDRUMMY CASTLE, ABERDEENSHIRE 10
ALFONSO XII. 34
THE PRINCE IMPERIAL 34
DON CARLOS 50
"TURF TISSUE," FACSIMILE OF FIRST PAGE 84
OPENING OF THE COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENT, 1901 120
LORD HOPETOUN 150
VISCOUNT KITCHENER 220
THE COMMONWEALTH MILITARY BOARD, 1914 254

BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION

By J. M. BULLOCH

Jose Maria Jacobo Rafael Ramon Francisco Gabriel del Corazon de Jesus
Gordon y Prendergast--to give the writer of this book the full name with
which he was christened in Jerez de la Frontera on March 19,
1856--belongs to an interesting, but unusual, type of the Scot abroad.

These virile venturers group themselves into four categories.
Illustrating them by reference to the Gordons alone, there was the
venturer, usually a soldier of fortune, who died in the country of his
adoption, such as the well-known Gene