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This tree and our children, the young ones who were shooting arrows at him, when they shot him.

So they kept shooting him until he died, as you see. They said, but his soul did not depart until

eight days after his crucifixion, with the continued shooting of arrows at him every day, which affected him

severely. We tried to remove the arrows from his body, but we could not,

except by dismembering the body.

Therefore, Colonel Gordon chose to break the wooden shafts of the arrows with a saw,

leaving his weapons in him, and buried him in this manner. This was

And after we consolidated the government's influence among the people of Mbasal and Qanabin, they appeared to us

for several weeks. We continued towards the Great Lake, and after a day's march, we reached Juma, where we found

the Laudia had a very great waterfall and its land was low-lying.

Therefore, after we decided to

establish it there, we chose to

establish it on a high hill between us and the waterfall, a journey of

an hour. The people of this region came to us willingly, submitting themselves

to us in the name of the government and helped us to dig the trench and build the fortifications.

And we proceeded on our way. After two days' march from

leaving the Laudia waterfall, we ascended mountains covered with green vegetation and fertile lands,

with many animals, sheep, goats, and others. The inhabitants were quick to

climb them, throwing stones at us, cursing and insulting us. Their insults were:

(Go back to your country, you infidels, and take your fathers and your sheep with you. Go back to your country, and do not interfere with our livelihood.) We addressed them, saying that we

had only come to see their country and to travel to the Great Lake. We told them:

(We have established the forts, built the castles, dug the trenches, and you have

captured the soldiers.)

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