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of our army should have been cut down in a contest with the savage hordes who were blocking the way to the town where Gordon was waiting, counting the hours when help might possibly reach him. Public expectation waited also for further intelligence, but the story of the march to Abu Klca and Gubat, the battles at both these places, and the events that followed the attempt to reach the beleaguered city, must be told in another chapter.

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