Fire and sword in the Sudan : a personal narrative of fighting and serving the Dervishes, 1879-1895 . ave to make a sketch of me, a request towhich I was delighted to accede. As to my guide, Hamed Garhosh, with the assistanceof a former acquaintance, Butros Bey Serkis, who is nowBritish Vice-Consul in Assuan, I at once paid him the onehundred and twenty Maria Theresa dollars. He also re-ceived from me a present of money, clothes, and arms,while over and above this Hunter Pasha presented himwith a gift of ^lo as a token of joy at my safe arrival;and so, having suddenly become a man of means, he
Fire and sword in the Sudan : a personal narrative of fighting and serving the Dervishes, 1879-1895 . ave to make a sketch of me, a request towhich I was delighted to accede. As to my guide, Hamed Garhosh, with the assistanceof a former acquaintance, Butros Bey Serkis, who is nowBritish Vice-Consul in Assuan, I at once paid him the onehundred and twenty Maria Theresa dollars. He also re-ceived from me a present of money, clothes, and arms,while over and above this Hunter Pasha presented himwith a gift of ^lo as a token of joy at my safe arrival;and so, having suddenly become a man of means, hetook a touching farewell of me and departed. A short time afterwards, telegrams of congratulationarrived. The first was from Major Lewis Bey on behalfof himself and the garrison of Wadi Haifa. The second,from the chief of the Austrian Diplomatic Agency inEgypt, Baron Heidler von Egeregg, who has been so inde-fatigable on my behalf. Then from my devoted Wingate Bey. Baron Victor Herring and his sons,who were travelling on the Nile, were the first of my owncountrymen to greet me. .-0^4.
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