Identifier: fireswordinsuda00slat (find matches)
Title: Fire and sword in the Sudan : a personal narrative of fighting and serving the Dervishes, 1879-1895
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Slatin, Rudolf Carl
Artist: Robert Talbot Kelly
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Publisher: London : Arnold
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ch werenow roaming about the country in search of work, madeno secret of the quantities of gold and silver treasure whichSuleiman had amassed, and which were now, no doubt, inthe hands of Gessis men. When it is remembered thatSuleimans treasury included the masses of gold and silverjewellery captured by his father at Dara, at Manawashi, —where Sultan Ibrahim had ruled, and had fallen on the cap-ture of Darfur, — at El Fasher, at Kebkebia, etc., it can bereadily understood what riches must have fallen into thehands of the Government levies, and — perhaps unknownto their commander, who was ignorant of the language —had been divided up amongst them. Gessi now quartered the bulk of his troops in the en-trenched camp vacated by Suleiman, and with a compara-tively small force proceeded to follow him up in pursuit.In order to conceal his whereabouts, Suleiman had scatteredhis men throughout the western districts; but Gessi cameacross one of his armed bands, under Rabeh, and dispersed
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btic*3 c > M a oouH <D CO S INTRODUCTORY. 19 it without much difficulty. Rabeh, however, escaped, andjust at this period Gessi received orders from Gordon tomeet him in Darfur; he therefore collected all his troopsin Dem Suleiman, where they rested after their fatiguingcampaign, whilst he himself, accompanied by some of hisofficers, qimongst whom was Yusef Pasha esh Shellali, pro-ceeded to Et Toweisha, where the caravan routes from OmShanga, El Obeid, and Dara join, and here he met Gordon.In this his second visit to Darfur, Gordon had ascertainedthat the Sudanese merchants of El Obeid had been sellingarms and powder to the rebel Suleiman, with whom theynaturally sympathised for their own selfish purposes; thiscontraband of war had been secretly despatched to Bahr elGhazal through the intermediary of the Gellabas (pettytraders), who obtained enormous prices from Suleiman:for instance, six to eight slaves would be exchanged for adouble-barrelled gun, and one or two slaves was the

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