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Title: Europe in Africa in the nineteenth century
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Latimer, Elizabeth Wormeley, 1822-1904
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Publisher: Chicago, A.C. McClurg and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ers Ohrwalder, Dichtl, and Primez-zoni, together with several Sisters of Charity, reached Khar-toum on their way to Delem, a station occupied by Egyptiantroops with a view to the suppression of the slave-trade.Delem was situated on the verge of the province of Darfour,in a district containing, it was said, one hundred mountains,with rich valleys between them, inhabited by Nubas, a kindly,industrious, and cheerful negro people, who had made con-siderable progress in civilization. They were liable, however,even in 1880, to raids from a fierce Arab tribe, called theBaggaras, who at present, under Abdullah, the Mahdis suc-cessor, may be said to rule the once Egyptian Soudan, andby 1892 had decimated the Nubas by war, sold numbers ofthem into slavery, and forced the remainder to take refugein their mountain fastnesses. On reaching Khartoum the missionary party was welcomedin the principal parlor of the Mission Buildings by the lead-ing Catholics in the city, among them Gessi Pasha, Gordons
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THE MAHDI. THE CAPTIVES OF THE MAHDI. 97 lieutenant in the Bahr Gazal, now wearied with his con-tinual campaigns, and Slatin Bey, fresh from his province ofDarfour. That evening the European colony dined togetherand were a cheerful party. Little did we foresee, saysFather Ohrwalder, the terrible fate in store for nearly allof us. The missionaries found their life at Delem peaceful, pros-perous, and happy. The mission became a little Christiancolony, being increased from time to time by rescued slaves,who speedily became deeply attached to the Sisters and theFathers ; while the Nubas and their chief were from the firsttheir friends. Things went on thus for about two years; then in Delemwere perceptible the first mutterings of the storm that was toburst over the Soudan, bringing massacre and calamity overall the land and on the peaceful Christian mission. Like the great Sheikh of the Wahabees, the Mahdi pro-claimed himself a reformer, protesting against abuses thatunder the lax Turks ha

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