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Excerpt from Mahdiism and the Egyptian Sudan: Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahdiism, and of Subsequent Events in the Sudan to the Present Time The difficulties with which a work of this description is fraught will be readily understood by any one who has had Oriental experience. It should be borne in mind that the events related extend over a period of some ten years, and occurred throughout an enormous extent of country, the greater part of which has been for years closed to civilisation and to travellers. Mr. Stanley has, it is true, dwelt very fully, in his recent work, on the events which occurred in the Equatorial Provinces - the remarks, therefore, on this subject in the following pages are merely inserted to give a degree of completeness to the narrative. There were, it will be remem bered, between and Government troops in the Sudan when the Mahdi movement first began - of these not more than a few thousand have ever succeeded in returning to Egypt; of the remainder many perished gallantly in their endeavour to uphold the authority of His Highness the Khedive in the Sudan; it is of these latter - such as the garrisons of Kassala, El Obeid, etc - that an attempt has been made in the following pages to give a faithful record; and Egyptians may indeed be proud of their fellow-countrymen who have played so gallant a part in sieges such as these, the attendant circumstances of which, till recently, have been so little known that their heroism has not been recognised. The occurrences at Khartum during the last few weeks of General Gordon's heroic defence of that town are never likely to be known with absolute accuracy; but it is believed that the description here given - collected from a variety of sources -may be taken as generally correct. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...felt--not, it is true, by the Baggara, but by the rural population, who, tired of this constant warfare, sighed for the return of a rule which, with all its faults, had at least given them enough to eat. By the end of June the original price of corn at Omdurman had been trebled, and there was a complete dearth of luxuries, such as sugar, rice, etc. In the meantime, Nejumi had been ordered to return to Omdurman to confer with the Khalifa on the plan of campaign. Towards the end of the month he again came back to Berber, and was reinforced by the emir Abd el Halim and his men, fresh from their successes on the Atbara. Him he appointed as his wakil. The next few months were spent in collecting the forces and pushing them on to the various posts; but delays in an ill-organised army are inevitable--troubles on the Abyssinian frontier, in Kordofan and Darfur, prevented the Khalifa from sending Nejumi the reinforcements he required. The left flank of his advance, too, was continually threatened by the restless Saleh, sheikh of the Kababish. All these circumstances delayed and hampered the impatient Nejumi, and it was not until the 14th of October that he at last advanced across the desert from Berber to Merawi, to again delay at the latter place to recruit from the inhabitants of that district. His advanced posts, however, were active, probably owing to the recall of Mohammed el Kheir to Omdurman; and the command from Kermeh north devolving on Osman Azrak, he in October pushed on small parties to Suarda and Ferkeh under Nur el Kanzi.1 The Egyptian advance post at Gemai, twenty-two miles from Halfa, was now withdrawn to Khor Mussa, some five miles distant from Halfa. The command of all the troops on the frontier was held by Brigadier-General the...