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Major Hunt smiled. "Bhutan is supposed to be ruled by a temporal monarch called the Deb Raja and also by a spiritual one, known in India as the Durma Raja. In reality it is under the sway of the most powerful of the several great feudal lords of the land, the Tongsa Penlop or Chief of Tongsa, whom we regard as the Maharajah of Bhutan.
When the Egyptian army, now under the command of Hicks Pasha, was being gathered to the camp of Um Durma, where it was at present situated, Daireh had been very energetic in trying for contracts to supply the troops with various requisites, and had ingratiated himself with many of the Egyptian officers, so he came and went freely past the sentries at all hours, always having the password.
Opposite the city, and on the west side of the Nile, there were a number of tents visible, and Harry asked the reis what place that was. "That is Um Durma, where the camp is," he replied. "And what is the camp for? It seems a very large one." "Yes, O traveller, it is large!
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