Ten years in Equatoria; . t;^/^j^ i,^^ U^-l^c/^h ::-^-* FACSIMILE OF SELIM MATERas LETTER. 368 TEN YEARS IN EQUATORIA. He relates tliat the Mahdis troops were in great despair, andhurried on their march. Their number did not exceed 150, ofwhich from time to time some fell on the road. In their retreatthey had set fire to the Government stations of Ayu, Lahore, andMuggi. I send this letter, as is my duty, to inform your Excellency ofthese events, and you will highly honour me by reading it. Major Selim Matera. December 1, 1888. —The chief clerks and the Cadi are among the dead. In the booty
Ten years in Equatoria; . t;^/^j^ i,^^ U^-l^c/^h ::-^-* FACSIMILE OF SELIM MATERas LETTER. 368 TEN YEARS IN EQUATORIA. He relates tliat the Mahdis troops were in great despair, andhurried on their march. Their number did not exceed 150, ofwhich from time to time some fell on the road. In their retreatthey had set fire to the Government stations of Ayu, Lahore, andMuggi. I send this letter, as is my duty, to inform your Excellency ofthese events, and you will highly honour me by reading it. Major Selim Matera. December 1, 1888. —The chief clerks and the Cadi are among the dead. In the booty taken from the camp of the assailants and from thedead, our Dufile soldiers found, besides a great quantity of garments,leather bags in the shape of belts filled with silver coins. Amongstmany medjidie dollars, a few coins struck at Khartoum by theMahdis Government were found. These, which were of the ordi-nary size of a dollar, had on one side: Struck at Omdurman,III year; and on the other side: Current coin, Mohammed.
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