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However, theMahdi scratched the flea bites, and soon a number were infected withthe faeces of the vermin that had inflicted them. Six hundred yards ahead of themachine-gun, at the foot of a high dun-coloured sand dune, was a lineof fifty wooden models of the human form. You penetrated locally, but the square held and healeditself, then became a trap for your emir al-Salida, his sons and athousand of his men. Finish the story, for you have intrigued us all.

Then they led in the man. Almost half a mile ahead, the shaggy head of a tall Doum palmrose above the lesser trees of the savannah. That is all I have attempted to do in these pages,and I beg to solicit pardon for any defect they may be found tocontain. He set off along thebank towards Khartoum.