helioing

Updated: May 24, 2025

Such hills children might build in play by the sea-shore. Surgham was quite a big one, and the signallers soon took possession of it, flagging and "helioing" back to camp. From its top I was enabled to see Omdurman, with Khartoum in the distance.

Bennet Burleigh - Khartoum Campaign, 1898: or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan