THE OMDURMAN TROPHIES.
A visit to the Wellington Barracks for the inspection of the trophies the Guards brought home from the Soudan, showed, says the Irish Times, that such a collection has never before been brought together, in this country. There are old flint-locks, carbines (such as were served out to the -yeomanry in this country 50 years ago), muzzle-loaders, and a miscellaneous collection of present day guns. There was no method in the arming oi the followers of the Khalifa. No matter what the arm might be it was pressed into service This accounts for the fact that the Dervishes so largely depended upon their spears at the fight ao Omdurman. The collection of spears is a striking one. Some of them have heads inlaid with gold threads carefully worked in quaint designs, and the staffs to which are attached the banners of the different Sheiks are richly ornamented with gold and silver. Although many of the sheaths of the swords were of distinctly Oriental design they contain blades with a Sheffield or Birmingham trade-mark upoa them.
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Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 157, 31 December 1898, Page 2 (Supplement)
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178THE OMDURMAN TROPHIES. Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 157, 31 December 1898, Page 2 (Supplement)
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