. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . r dead horses, and from the few menstill alive we learnt that the Khalifa, having failed in his attempt to reach therising ground where we had forestalled him, had then endeavoured to makea turning movement, which had been crushed by our fire. Seeing his followers 219 220 A BOOK OF LIFE AND DEATH retiring he made an ineffectual attempt to rally them, but recognizing thatthe day was lost, he had called on his Emirs to dismount from their horses,and, seating himself on his
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . r dead horses, and from the few menstill alive we learnt that the Khalifa, having failed in his attempt to reach therising ground where we had forestalled him, had then endeavoured to makea turning movement, which had been crushed by our fire. Seeing his followers 219 220 A BOOK OF LIFE AND DEATH retiring he made an ineffectual attempt to rally them, but recognizing thatthe day was lost, he had called on his Emirs to dismount from their horses,and, seating himself on his furwa, or sheepskin prayer-mat, as is the customof Arab chiefs who disdain to surrender, he had placed Khalifa Ali WadHelu on his right, and Ahmed Fedil on his left, whilst the remaining Emirsseated themselves round him, with their bodyguard in line some twentypaces in front, and in this position they had unflinchingly met their total Dervish losses during the fighting are estimated at i,ooo menkilled and wounded, and 9,400 prisoners including women and children. Authority: London Gazette, 30th January Admiral Toco. From a photot^raph hy C. iicfschcl No. loiTogos Address to the Spirits. ADMIRAL TOGO to-day attended the funeral services of a numberof officers and men who were killed at Port Arthur while servingunder him, and read a eulogy on them. He said: As I stand before your spirits, I can hardly express my feelings. Yourpersonality is fresh in my memory. Your corporeal existence has ceased,but your passing from the world has been in the gallant discharge of yourduty, by virtue of which the enemys fleet on this side of the world has beencompletely disabled. Our combined fleet retains the undisputed commandof the seas. / trust this imll bring peace and rest to your spirits. It is myagreeable duty to avail myself of the occasion of my presence in this city,whither I have been called by the Emperor, to report our successes to thespirits of those who sacrificed
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