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Auction: 20025 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 749

Sudan
Major General Archibald Hunter
1897 (12 Nov.) ALS written from Berber to Major General Charles Benjamin Knowles headed "PRIVATE". Hunter is in response to Knowles having returned "from a 16 days patrol up the Atbara. Osman Digna had gone before I started ... He had a fine well built town of 5000 inhabitants, a good market, and a great depot for the manufacture of salt.", writing further that "Mahmoud holds on to Metemneh and will not budge, Our gunboats have bombarded him twice but he laughs at them. The right bank of the Nile is clear. The road is open to Suakin - I have been 150 miles of the 260 miles to Kassala. We are waiting to see what the Govt. at home are going to do. If the truth be told they are funking the French and allowing themselves to be bluffed over the upper Nile question", with further comments on the area and conditions. An important letter. Signed "A Hunter".

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