Death of Colonel Stewart.
[reuter’s telegrams.] Cairo. October 7. News has been received here that a steamer in which Colonel Stewart was proceeding down the Nile from Berber towards Abu Hamed, struck on a rock at Wadel Homar (fifth cataract), and sank shortly afterwards. No lives were lost, but it is reported that Colonel Stewart and his party were, on reaching shore, attacked by a band of Bedouins, and that the Colonel was killed. The news requires confirmation. Later.—Further intelligence regarding the fate of Colonel Stewart has been brought in, and shows that Colonel Stewart lost his life through the treachery of the Bedouins. It appears that a party of desert Arabs witnessed the loss of the steamer at Wadel Homar, and when Colonel Stewart’s party landed offered to escort them to their destination. Their sei vices were accepted, but having allayed suspicion by protestations of friendship, the Arabs turned upon those whom they were escorting, and killed Colonel Stewart and all who were with him.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 255, 8 October 1884, Page 2
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166Death of Colonel Stewart. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 255, 8 October 1884, Page 2
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