The passing of the Shereefian empire . s, as there had been absolutely no , the Spanish are very punctilious on suchmatters, and the etiquette had to be troops were drawn up in front of the Kasbah,the bands played, and a solemn salute was givenby all present; which proceedings at an end, wewere permitted to enter, and to take up our quar-ters there for the night. General Marina, thedivisional commanders, and ourselves all foundquarters in the Kasbah. On September 28th I left Zeluan to return toMelilla, as the operations seemed to hang fire,and I already began to
The passing of the Shereefian empire . s, as there had been absolutely no , the Spanish are very punctilious on suchmatters, and the etiquette had to be troops were drawn up in front of the Kasbah,the bands played, and a solemn salute was givenby all present; which proceedings at an end, wewere permitted to enter, and to take up our quar-ters there for the night. General Marina, thedivisional commanders, and ourselves all foundquarters in the Kasbah. On September 28th I left Zeluan to return toMelilla, as the operations seemed to hang fire,and I already began to gather that it was notthe intention of Spain to follow up her victories,but rather to hold the territory she had alreadyobtained by a line of fortified posts, and to cometo terms with the Kiffs. We rode from Zeluanto Melilla in company with the Princessa Hussarsand some empty artillery waggons, which werebeing sent back for fresh ammunition. Thejourney was uneventful, and we were unmolestedby the enemy. On Wednesday, September 29th, 1. ?2, THE SOMBRE GORGE. 467 Hill of Ait-Aissa was occupied at dawn, and wewere able to visit the Gorge of Gurugu, wherethe unfortunate Pintos had met with his disasteron July 27th. My visit to this soQibre gorgehas left a very unpleasant impression on mymind. Parties of Spanish soldiers were busilyengaged in searching for the dead bodies oftheir comrades, who had been left on the groundafter the precipitate retreat of the three hundred corpses were found scat-tered among the rocks and shrivelled by thehot African sun. It was obvious that manyof these men had only been wounded, and hadbeen left to a dreadful fate at the hands of abarbarous enemy. Some of the corpses werefound with their hands and leo-s tied toofetherand leaning up against rocks, where they hadbeen placed by the Riffs. The Moors had thenstood at a distance and stoned these unfor-tunates to death, because in every instance theskulls of the slain were found crushed to pul
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