Curious stories reach Dongola of what Iho Arabs say of us:— " The Inglesi," po one Sheikh writes to another, '* hare all a good plan of fighting. They stapd still, and wait for. us, andrthen they fire;, thus we loss a greai'many. _But when one Inglees is killed or wounded, another takes him away on his back, and another takes his place. Thus in, batt^ you do not see huge piles of dead miied with wounded among the Ihglesi as it is with us; arid- the ground is not obstructed with the dead. The Tnglesi like fighting, and do the' fighting themselves; whereas the Mudir of Dongola sends Sudanese to .fight, rand keeps his own men in the -mr/',.. % .... ■■■■ ;■■■■ >~<J- •■i'j.-ij.j.c . ■■■■.■■_ ; :«'. j ■Id ■■■-•.■"
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 12, 9 July 1885, Page 2
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122Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 12, 9 July 1885, Page 2
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