THE SOUDAN.
Here is a. grim and ghastly detail of the realities* of war. It is supplied hv the special correspondent of the Maibj Chronicle, who, ou his way Gak<lul,paid a visit to|the battle field of Abu Klea. The correspondent says : « It presented a horrible spectacle. The desert for nearly a mile was strewn -with the bodies of- the slaughtered Arabs. On our approach great numbers of carrion birds rose lazily from their sickening feast. They continued to hover around, however, until our depaiture. The corpses had already be«»n shrivelled by the great heat and the dry air of the desert to the proportions and semblance of mummies, with this difference that, they lay twisted in every variety of contortion. In raauy instances the white bones, stripped of their covering by the foul birds, stared at the' beholder. Truly, a sickening sight, and' one to be remembered with a shudder."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 123, 29 April 1885, Page 3
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150THE SOUDAN. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 123, 29 April 1885, Page 3
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