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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
Artist: Robert Talbot Kelly
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Publisher: London : Arnold
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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; but Gustav added that the armywould not submit without a fight, and that in all proba-bility it would be annihilated. Immensely cheered by thisinformation, the Mahdi now summoned Gustav to be con-verted to Islam, in which he of course readily acquiesced,and he was then handed over for further care to OsmanWad el Haj Khaled. So confident of victory had the Mahdi become afterGustavs statement that he had hundreds of summonseswritten out and distributed along the road, calling onHicks and his officers to surrender. Of course theywere left unanswered; but at the same time they had theireffect on many who were concerned about their own safety.Others, on the contrary, used these papers in a mannerwhich so irritated the Mahdi that for long he visited hiswrath on the unfortunate survivors who had dared to putto such contemptuous uses documents in which divinelyinspired words were written. Prior to his departure from Duem, Hicks had been in-formed by the Government that he would be joined en
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A Dervish Emir. HICKS pashas expedition. 239 route by six thousand men from Jebel Tagalla, as well assome hundreds of Habbania Arabs; and he daily expectedto meet these, and thus revive the flagging courage of hisdemoralised men. But he waited in vain, — not a mancame to him, nor did he ascertain a word of news. Onquitting Rahad he advanced to Aluba in Dar Ghodayat, inthe hope of obtaining an abundant supply of water there;and on the 3rd November he reached Kashgeil, some thirtymiles southeast of El Obeid. Meanwhile the Madhi had worked up his fanatical fol-lowers to a pitch of the wildest enthusiasm, and had toldthem the Prophet had announced to him that on the dayof battle they would be accompanied by twenty thousandangels, who would attack the unbelievers. On ist ofNovember he quitted El Obeid for Birket, where his fol-lowers, uniting with the force previously despatched towatch the square, now worried the tired and thirsty Egyp-tians incessantly. On the 3rd November Abu Anga and

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