The gunner turned a hand crank, and thesix heavy brass barrels rotated around a central shaft. As he watched, it drew closer, so rapidly that he was taken bysurprise, the alien shape seeming to swell before his eyes as it rushedtowards him. In the meantime Kitchener's main army came marching upalong the riverbank, and laagered around the tiny abandoned fishingvillage of Eigeiga. They swam them tothe mud bank on the far side, and when they had regained their footingled them out on to dry ground.
General Stewart iswith the main body of the relief column, not more than an hour behindus. Gordon had not risen fromhis chair. I think that isexactly how they do it. Each emir rode at the head of his tribe with hisdrummers, trumpeters and banner-bearers preceding him.
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