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Title: Fire and sword in the Sudan : a personal narrative of fighting and serving the Dervishes, 1879-1895
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Slatin, Rudolf Carl
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Publisher: London : Arnold
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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niatree; but, attacked on all sides, they were eventually killedalmost to a man. The heads of Baron Seckendorff (whowore a full, light-coloured beard) and General Hicks werecut off and sent to the Mahdi, who at once summonedKlootz (now known as Mustafa) to identify them; butthis seemed hardly necessary, as it was well known theyhad been killed. With the exception of two or three hundred who hadescaped death by hiding themselves under the heaps ofdead bodies, the entire force had been annihilated. Littlemercy was shown; a few of the survivors were pardoned,but the majority of them were subsequently executed.Ahmed ed Dalia, the Mahdis executioner, told me that heand Yakub, Khalifa Abdullahis brother, with a few hun-dred horsemen, came across a party of about one hundredEgyptians who showed fight. Through Dalia, Yakub sentthem a message that their lives would be spared if theygave up their arms; but no sooner had they done so thanhe and his men, calling them unfaithful dogs, charged, and
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HICKS pashas expedition. 241 killed every one. One Egyptian owed his life entirely tohis presence of mind; becoming separated from the rest,he fled, but was followed by some Gellabas, who caughthim up. Do not kill me, O friends of the Mahdi, hecried, ^ I know an art which will make you all wealthymen. Their cupidity now aroused, they spared him, andpromised to do him no harm if he would tell them hissecret. * Certainly I shall do so, he answered. You havespared my life, you deserve to know my secret; but I amtoo exhausted to tell you now, take me before your masterthe Madhi, whom I long to behold; let me seek hispardon, and then I shall have rest and be able to makemyself useful to you. Taking him in their midst, theybrought him before the Madhi, to whom they explainedhe was a man who had long since been convinced of hisDivine mission, but had not succeeded in coming to himbefore; he was pardoned, and swore to become henceforthhis most devoted adherent. No sooner was he dismissedfrom

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