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Wichita Daily Eagle
Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas
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Biographical description of the Mahdi, Mohammed-Ahmed, including his physical appearance, dervish-like behavior, and family origins in the Nubian province of Dongola, Sudan, with the family moving to Chindi around 1852.
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"Imagine a man about 40 years of age, of medium height, as lean, as the saying is, as shotten herring, with a mahogany complexion, coal black beard and eyes, and three vertical slashes on his pallid cheeks; add to this a long cotton shirt as a garment, a narrow turban as a head-dress, a pair of wooden sandals, and in his hands—dry as those of a mummy—a string of ninety beads, corresponding to an equal number of divine attributes, and you have the Mahdi." So says the Catholic World, and then it adds: "Those who have seen him say that Mohammed-Ahmed plays to perfection the part of a visionary dervish, waving his head when walking, and murmuring constant prayers, his eyes fixed on heaven. His father was a carpenter on Naft island, in the Nubian province of Dongola, and about 1852 came, with his four children, to Chindi, a small city on the banks of the Nile south of Berber."
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Dongola
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About 1852
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Description of the Mahdi's appearance as a lean man of about 40 with mahogany complexion, black beard and eyes, slashes on cheeks, wearing cotton shirt, turban, sandals, and holding prayer beads. He acts as a visionary dervish, murmuring prayers with eyes fixed on heaven. His father, a carpenter from Naft island in Nubian province of Dongola, moved with four children to Chindi on the Nile south of Berber around 1852.