WHAT THE ARABS THINK
Curious stories reach Dori</01-a of what the Arabs say of us:—"The Inglesi," so one Sheikh writes to another, ' ; have after all a good plan of lighting. They stand still, they wait for us, and then they fire: thus we lose a great many. But when one "Ingleeg is killed or wounded, another
takes him out of th- way on his back, and another man takes his pince. _ lhus in battle you do not see huge piles of dead mixed with wounded among the Ingles! as it is with us; and the ground is not obstructed with the dead. lne Inglesi like fighting, and do the fightthemselves; whereas the Mudir of Dongolu sends Sudanese to fight, and keeps his own men in tear." The story of the English having a long pole, which they climb up, and from which they "see everything," is again repeated.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2754, 20 July 1885, Page 3
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