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In November 1879, the Austrian photographer, writer and scientist Richard Buchta visited Gessi, who retained the name Deim Suleiman.In a letter to Schweinfurth he wrote that Gessi, with the support of local Southern fighters whom he had armed as proxies, ""did not just chase away the slave-traders, but actually annihilated them.Without any mercy, hundreds of Jellaba were chased into the bushes like wild beasts and butchered to death"."