to
have English soldiers sent . . . And your letter to the President of
the Council and the English Minister at Cairo, in which you speak of
your appointing three steamers to go and inquire as to the state of
Sennaar, and that you will send soldiers to Berber by the steamers to
recapture it, sending with them Stewart and the Consuls, whom the Most
High God has destroyed. Also we have seen the two seals engraved with
our name to imitate our seals . . . . Tricks in making ciphers, and
using so many languages, are of no avail. From the Most High God, to
whom be praise, no secrets can be hidden. As to your expecting
reinforcements, reliance for succour on others than God, that will
bring you nothing but destruction, and cause you to fall into utmost
danger in this world and the next. For God Most High has dispersed
sedition through our manifestation, and has vanquished the wicked and
obstinate people, and has guided those who have understanding in the
way of righteousness. And there is no refuge but in God, and in
obedience to His command, and that of His prophet and of His Madhi. No
doubt you have heard what has happened to your brethren from whom you
expected help, at Suakin and elsewhere, whom God has destroyed, and
dispersed and abandoned. Notwithstanding all this, as we have arrived
at a days journey from Omdurman and are coming please God, to your
place, if you return to the most High God and become a Moslem and
surrender to His Order and that of His prophet, and believe in us as
the Madhi, send us a message from thee, and from those with thee,
after laying down your arms and giving up the thought of fighting, so
that I may send you one with safe conduct, by which you will obtain
assurance of benefits of the blessings of this world and the next.
Otherwise, and if you do not act thus, you will have to encounter war
from God and His prophet. And know that the Most High God is mighty
for thy destruction, as He has destroyed others before thee, who were
much stronger than thee, and more numerous. And you, and your
children and your property, will be for a prey to the monsters, and
you will repent when repentance will not avail . . . And there is no
succourer or strength but in God, and peace be upon those who have
followed the Madhi. (_Guidance_.)

POSTSCRIPT.--"In one of your cipher-telegrams sent to Bahk