Bird Hunting on the White Nile: A Naturalist’s Experiences in the Soudan (1902)
Witherby, Harry F. · The Office of Knowledge (London) · leaf 30
_ Conquerors and Conquered. 27 spilt our blood such a short time before. That they were no less eager to fight one could tell by the fierce energy of their drill, but above them, near their former master’s house, floated two flags side by side—the Union Jack and the Crescent and Star, and around… … chiefs, were a few British officers in their shirt sleeves administering the Soudan. Just outside the great square is a small enclosure surrounded by high walls, and in this may be seen a great heap of bricks with a square of arches round it—all that is left of the Mahdi’s tomb, for ten years the…
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