Fire and sword in the Sudan : a personal narrative of fighting and serving the Dervishes, 1879-1895 . ted, and broughtbefore the Kadi. The necessary witnesses were procured;and the Fiki openly declared before them that he was agood Mohammedan, but not a follower of the command of the Khalifa, the judges ordered him tobe laden with chains; his hands tied behind his back;and, under the deafening shouts of the mob, he wasdragged to the market-place, where he was hanged on thescaffold erected there. I remember looking at the body,whilst suspended from the gallows, and was struck by thecal
Fire and sword in the Sudan : a personal narrative of fighting and serving the Dervishes, 1879-1895 . ted, and broughtbefore the Kadi. The necessary witnesses were procured;and the Fiki openly declared before them that he was agood Mohammedan, but not a follower of the command of the Khalifa, the judges ordered him tobe laden with chains; his hands tied behind his back;and, under the deafening shouts of the mob, he wasdragged to the market-place, where he was hanged on thescaffold erected there. I remember looking at the body,whilst suspended from the gallows, and was struck by thecalm and smiling expression on the face of this man whohad died for his convictions. Several hundred houses,surrounding the abode of the murdered man, were con-fiscated; their inmates arrested, bound, and carried off toprison; but, through the intervention of Adlan, they weresubsequently liberated. The Khalifa now issued a procla-mation to the effect that all the inhabitants of the citywere responsible for the actions of their neighbours; andpersons found involved in political or religious intrigues. ^?•Vlfrf*^ V m A Slave Dhow on the Nile. EVENTS IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE SUDAN. 431 were threatened with the most condign punishment. Onmere suspicion, several of the natives of the Nile valley-were thrown into chains, and deprived of all they pos-sessed. Thus did he deal with all suspected persons, andat the same time considerably enriched his treasury. On another occasion, he had a meeting of the Kadis,and told them, in confidence, that, in his opinion, all ves-sels on the Nile were really Ghanima (booty); for, ashe truthfully remarked, whilst he was in Kordofan, theowners had, in spite of his frequent appeals, invariablyrefused to assist the Mahdis cause. They had not onlyfailed to attack the Government steamers on the river, buthad also frequently provided the Government stations withgrain and wood. Of course the Kadis fully concurred inhis opinion; and, the following morning, th
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