This is a manuscript draft entitled “Osman Digna’s Report of his primary actions in the Eastern Sudan. Submitted by him to the Mahdī, as taken from an Arabic copy found in Afafit on its being occupied by Gvt. troops on 19,2,91”.
This draft translation was published in Wingate’s “Report on the Dervish Rule in the Eastern Sudan” (May 1891) as Appendix II entitled “Extracts from Osman Digna’s correspondence, captured on 19th February, 1891”
This report can be found in Durham (SAD 253/1) and in the NRO (CairInt 3/03/46).
This is translation is based on an Arabic text, called the Waqāʾiʿ ʿUthmān Diqna (“The Chronicles of ʿUthmān Diqna”), which is kept at the NRO (Mahdiyya 8/07/60).
Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Abū Salīm has published an edited version in Arabic of this text (Abū Salīm, Mudhakkirāt ʿUthmān Diqna, Khartoum, 1974), stating that the English translation was of poor quality.
24/03/1891
