Imagine a single, dirty, red-faced man on a camel ornamented with flies.
-General Charles Gordon, August 31, 1877, Letter to his Sister, On tour of Kordofan and Darfur
That near exact rendering of Gordon in bronze- cast in England, accidently sunk in the Nile while en route to its plinth in Khartoum, and upon Sudanese independence removed to Gordon’s School in Surrey- only leaves out the flies, as it should because camels are bothered more by ticks. Rukāb, Riders, KhairAllah called them. Just like him, on their forty day way to Egypt.