gordon heard from; the latest reports from khartoum and sennaar.a general belief that gordon is in the power of the mahdi and that the reports about him are false. Share full article July 21, 1884 ...

Last week the dervish spirit was astir again in Khartoum. So was the Mahdi’s son. Sir Sayed Abdul Rahman Mohamed Ahmed El Mahdi Pasha lacked his father’s messianic complex.