| Show TIIE mik falise FALSE PROPHET AS INTERVIEW WITH EL maudr mandr austrian missionary eather rather catl who only left khartoum last ruffes ril rii gives the following description de the hahn bahn which will be I 1 found to iraln a number of at resti par ulars hitherto t mohamed farned earned ined moed who was born bom at nou non golah is isa tat 10 40 years of age tall and of cop 7 red complexion fora longtime worked wath his bis two brothers lu in the 9 of khartoum at building ats ts for the nile but got tired of his deandar de and aspired to become a fakin fakiri ich Is about the same thing as a st at he applied to the of bisland island of tuti euti situated close to altonin a little to the north of the action ol 01 the white and blue nii nil es tr a few years study with the th succeeded in iri taking the or tofy jofF of ahir abir rether he then sought tf be ne e a aneldh and was agan aswin success 4 thenceforth ac had bad but one ob G in view namely to assume the lacter of a prophet he retired to I 1 island of abba near kana on the lite ate 21 hours by steamer ni in khartoum and taking up his ge dean dein 1 n a dry cistern he be led lea leathe the life t S sheikh in khe strictest sense of the rd d lie he remained there for six years y leaving his retreat on FrIday fridays sto to to co the mos mosque que his reputation fo for r ty aprea spread in course of time through i the country coun pa t n uti he came it t he e expounded his miss mission forr loir to a i derous erous assembly of moslems at la he told the archangel L riel iriel had d ed k him to heath the sw or order to reform the bad moslems and to found a empire which would be followed by universal peace lie ile held his mission from the prophet and would achieve what mohamed had been unable to do lie ile therefore urged them the to follow him he was wad the mahdi and he would lead them to the kingdom founded by allah for true believers abdel kader thee thed ex governor general of the soudan a man of ili lit high h probity and ability endeavored by gy theological argument to convince the people that ohamed mohamed 31 ahmed was an 1 impostor mis ostor but to little purpose not only on y the lower class but also the government officials and many officers secretly believed in the mahals mission beouf pasha at the time he be was governor general sent an emissary sa to the false prophet father D sch th happened to be present when that emissary on his bis return rendered the following foll fol olvin lowine account of his interview with the mahdi afandi aion an arriving at alla alia I 1 found mohamed ahmed surrounded by or followers all of them naked with iron chain belts round their waists and broad drawn swords the mahdi occupied a raised seat in their midst and in his right hand he held the prophets staff when I 1 asked him what his object was he described his pretended mission I 1 answered that the Govern government mont and myself were as good as he but this he denied on the grounds that we allowed the christians to have churches es of their own that we aff afford ord them protection ro tec tion and that the govern Gove k T fed led taxes mul mui him to abandon d on his plans and nd to surrender addin hul huk bl t yle tie nu not resist a government ent eat disposed of soldiers it to rifles guns rung and steamers to th this he rejoined if the soldiers fire nire on me rae and my followers their bullets will not hurt us and as you advance a against us with steamers they will sink with on board I 1 london paper |
