Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892

CHAPTER XXI.

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LUPTON BEY AND THE AMMUNITION.

The Khalifa's powder and ammunition begin to fail--Lupton Bey makes fulminate--Unsuccessful attempts to make powder --Yusef Pertekachi at last succeeds--The explosion in the powder factory 366