CHANGED DERVISHES.
TOLD AT A CITY ADDEESS,
Four dervishes who fought against the British at Omdurman have now exchanged tho shovel-Waded spear for tho microscope and warlike, pursuits for the 6tudy of tropical diseases.
This somewhat reniarkablo conversion wns described ljy Mr. E. Diirnnd in nildre.ssing tlio members of the New Zealand Club yesterday. He stated that a magnificent laboratory had been established at Khartum for tlio study of tropical diseases. Tlio work was earned out upon an extended scale. Every year tho niou engaged in it travelled up tho Nile to study the habits of mosquitoes and other insects, suspected of spreading abroad various diseases. Four of tho workers engaged in this humanitarian activity wero dervishes, onco wild sons of tho desert, who had taken tho field against the British at Oradurman. It was a wonderful example of tho benefit of British Imperialism, Mr. Durand remarked, to see these four dervishes labouring at a great risk, not for their own benefit, but for tiro benefit of tho human race at largo.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1416, 17 April 1912, Page 6
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172CHANGED DERVISHES. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1416, 17 April 1912, Page 6
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