Conquerors and Conqtiered. 



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spilt our blood such a short time before. That they were 

 no less eager to fight one could tell by the fierce energy 

 of their drill, but above them, near their former master's 

 house, floated two flags side by side — the Union Jack and 

 the Crescent and Star, and around them, working in the 

 houses so lately occupied by their ignorant and brutal 



THE RUINS OF THE MAHDI S TOMB. 



chiefs, were a few British officers in their shirt sleeves 

 administering the Soudan. Just outside the great square 

 is a small enclosure surrounded by high walls, and in 

 this may be seen a great heap of bricks with a square 

 of arches round it — all that is left of the Mahdi's tomb, 

 for ten years the most sacred and revered object in the 

 Soudan. Leading out of this enclosure is a compound 



