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Updated: May 5, 2025
Now they were separated from the enemy by the canal only, but Cousrouf's cannon made impassible the one bridge that united the two shores. "Yet we must effect our passage to the other side," said Bardissi. "Yes, but the question is, how are we to do so?" said Mohammed. All the bim bashis and boulouk bashis, together with the beys and their kachefs, were called together in a council of war.
The waves are surging higher and higher, but I see the boat in which I am to ride over them safely. The golden oars only are wanting, but I shall find them, too!" He called the Nubian, and commanded him to tell his bim bashis he desired to see them. And when they came he conversed with them for a long time, and gave them his orders.
The soldiers were to remain quietly in their quarters, and not to mingle with the revolters. "Wait quietly for three hours, and, if you receive no message from me by that time, him bashis, you may allow the soldiers to go out and satisfy their curiosity. Now go and wait until then." The insurgents had again repaired to the house of the defterdar, situated on the square of the Esbekieh.
The savage cry of the soldiery for pay was renewed in front of the citadel day after day with increased fierceness, and at last the two bim bashis, Moussa and Ismail Aga, were sent up to the citadel to the caimacan to make a final appeal for pay on the part of the soldiers.
'That's all right, boys, said the Honourable Patrick Erroll, Private of Dragoons. 'And now, Sergeant darlin', give me half-a-dozen rank and file, and, please God, well have a meal for Christmas morning. 'Now, I'm just as keen as any one of you, said Sergeant Jervase, 'and just as hungry; but be very quiet about the business, Paddy, and don't have a row with the Bashis, for the Lord's sake.
Equip yourself and collect your energies. Be the lion and the tiger, the serpent and the hero: in this way only can you accomplish your end." Early on the following morning the videttes announced to the sarechsme that no trace of the enemy was anywhere to be seen. "Then we shall return to Cairo," said the sarechsme to his bim bashis; "give orders to prepare to march."
Mohammed well knows where the swarm of soldiers that had stood before his house have now gone, led by their bim bashis. They rush, their numbers increasing on the way, to the house where Bardissi resides. With loud cries they demand to speak with Bardissi himself. He appears, and asks why they have come.
"And once more I repeat to you that I neither can nor will pay them!" cried Taker, furiously. "If the traitors dare to threaten me, I will lay their heads at their feet!" "Then we had best begin with you!" cried the bim bashis, rushing upon him, and running him through with their ataghans.
His officers were speaking of him. They were making anxious inquiries and conjectures as to where the general might be, and were considering whether they should make further search for him or break up camp and return to Cairo. They were the voices of his bim bashis and boulouk bashis. Smiling, he listened for a time to their conversation.
At their head rides the sarechsme, Mohammed Ali; around him his bim bashis, in their glittering uniforms. But who is it that rides beside him on the splendidly-caparisoned ass who is the man in the long green caftan, trimmed with fur, the green turban on his head adorned with its glittering crescent? He is unarmed, and yet he rides beside the sarechsme.
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