قراءة كتاب Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892

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Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892

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Wingate F R (Francis Reginald) Sir

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class="c29">Father Ohrwalder's interview with the Mahdi at Rahad, concerning religion

107 The gold medal struck by Gordon to commemorate the siege of Khartum 122 A Dervish emir present in the attack on Khartum, and afterwards captured at Toski 136 An Egyptian Harem woman 156 "Many a time did I turn round to look back, until Bonomi disappeared from view in the wood" 181 A slave woman from Equatoria 209 Abyssinian dancing girls 243 An Arab sheikh of Upper Egypt 255 Bishir Bey, sheikh of the Ababdeh Arabs 259 Wad en Nejumi (from a photograph of a drawing made by an Egyptian officer of the great Emir, as he lay dead on the field of Toski) 264 A native woman of Makaraka, the wife of one of Emin Pasha's officers, who reached Egypt from Uganda in June 1892 270 A trophy of arms, banners, and drums, captured from the Dervishes 305 Charles Neufeld 354 A slave girl from Equatoria 382 A Baggara woman 398 The Arab guides who effected the escape of Father Ohrwalder and the Sisters 409 "We had scarcely gone twenty paces from the river, when
suddenly we heard the sound of a camel" 435

Plan of Omdurman.

Map of the Nile Basin, showing route taken by Father Ohrwalder.

Sketch Map showing correct Position of I.B.E.A. Co's Forts & Boundary of Uganda.

TEN YEARS'

CAPTIVITY IN THE MAHDI'S CAMP

1882—1892

INTRODUCTION.

FATHER OHRWALDER's JOURNEY TO THE SUDAN.

Description of Kordofan and Dar Nuba—The Mission Station at Delen.

I left Cairo on the 28th of December, 1880, as full of bright hopes for a happy future as any young man could wish to be. I had no thought of the miserable fate which was so soon to overtake me.

Our party consisted of Bishop Comboni, two missionaries, Johann Dichtl and Franz Pimezzoni (these three have long since passed into eternity), and several sisters. We embarked at Suez, and spent the first day of 1881 on the Red Sea. On the 4th of January we landed at Sawakin. At that time the governor of the town was Ala ed Din Pasha, who subsequently accompanied General Hicks as Governor-General of the Sudan, and was eventually killed with him. After a journey of twenty-eight days and travelling viâ Berber, we reached Khartum; here the pleasant gardens and shady groves of date-palms impressed us most favourably. Standing on the high river bank, just in front of the Mission gardens, were the various members of the Mission, headed by Father Alois Bonomi, also the Austrian Consul Hansal and the Italian

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