Dear Ron
Thanks for your note. I have forwarded it to our Kipling Mailbase in case
anyone else has comments they want to make.
All good wishes, John R
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From: Ron Clibborn-Dyer <[log in to unmask]>
To: Robert Davenport <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: <[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 12:14 PM
Subject: The Four Feathers
> There is a very old Film titled The Four Feathers, about the Nile Wars
when
> Gordon was in Khartoum, and the battles with the Fuzzy Wuzzies of the
Mahdi's
> army.
>
> If my memory serves me right:
> The story is about one Englishman who did not join-up and was thought to
be
> a coward. He went to the Nile and dressed as an Arab beggar was able to
rescue
> his friends from captivity in a terrible jail in the dessert.
>
> The battle scenes with the Fuzzie Wuzzies were particularly graphic, and
> were later
> brought to my mind when reading of Winston Churchill's experiences at the
> Battle of
> Omdurman when he became separated from the main body of troops in a wadi
> [dry river
> bed]
>
> In 1964 visited the scene of this skirmish just outside Omdurman across
the
> White
> Nile from Khartoum, where Chinese Gordon lost his head on the Palace
steps.
>
> The book advertised by Amazon UK titled the Four Feathers by AE Mason may
be a
> reprint of an older book on this subject from which the film may have been
> based.
>
> I would be interested to hear the outcome of your Enquiry, as I was only a
lad
> when I saw the film, and was in my 20's when I visited Omdurman on my way
> down the
> Nile.
>
> I would not be surprised if Kipling had written something about the
Mahdi's
> Fuzzie
> Wuzzies - Whirling Dervishes come to mind, but I doubt that it were the
book
> on which
> was based the film I saw when I was but a lad.
>
> Best wishes, Ron in Hong Kong
>
> *******************
> Dear Sir
> > At the library of congress is a book "The Four Feathers" by Rudyard
Kipling.
> > Do you know anything about this work?
> Is it anything like the book by AEW Mason?
> > Thanks!
> > Robert Davenport
>
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