Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 443
rged with crime, but never con-victed. By the middle of March, he hadsucceeded in sending almost threethousand people down the Nileinto safety. But the Mahdi wasdaily growing stronger, and Gor-don soon discovered that he couldexpect no assistance from without.On the sixteenth of April, he… … A SAND-STORM IN THE DESERT. course, and started to send away as many womenand children and extra troops as possible. Icame without soldiers, he said in his first address stand by him. He still had it in his power toleave with his friends who went down the Nile,but he did not feel that he could…
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