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Updated: June 15, 2025
"Where is she?" asked King, when he had finished drinking. "Go and look!" Ismail gave him a sudden shove, that sent him feet first forward over the edge. He fell a distance rather greater than his own height, to another ledge and stood there looking up.
"Come in and have a smoke, Parker," said the Major cheerily. The subaltern entered and helped himself to a cigarette from an open box on the table before looking for a chair in the scantily-furnished room. As he struck a match he said, "Ismail Khan tells me you've just had trouble with that surly beast, Chand Khan". Dermot told him what had occurred. "What a soor!
Shere Ali prayed too, but he prayed silently, with all the fervour of a fanatic, that it might be his hand which should drive the English to their ships upon the sea. When he rose and came out from the mosque he turned to Ahmed Ismail. "There are some of my people in Delhi?" Ahmed Ismail bowed.
"Let us leave this place quietly," said Ismail, "I have just heard a slight noise which heralds something that will amuse us." He dismissed his attendants, and took my hand, saying, "Let us go to a small room, the key of which I luckily have with me, but let us be careful not to make any noise.
Its articles deposed Ismail, created Abdullah Sultan, ceded two tracts of territory to England, and provided that the new ruler should receive an English Resident and Assistant Resident, whose salaries and expenses should be the first charge on the revenue of the country, whose counsel must be asked and "acted upon" on all questions other than those of religion and custom, and under whose advice the collection and control of all revenues and the general administration should be regulated.
The elder is Mohamed Ali Mirza, twenty-four years of age, whose mother is a daughter of Mirza Taki Khan, Amir-el-Kebir and his wife, who was the favourite sister of the late Shah. The second is Malik Mansur, about fifteen years of age, whose mother is a daughter of Ismail Mirza, a Prince of the reigning Kajar family.
The injustice and impolicy of this clause had always been insisted upon to the sultan by the English government, and when Ismail Pasha became viceroy, in the year 1863, he saw that the constant drain upon the working population required to keep twenty thousand fresh labourers monthly for the canal was a loss to the country for which nothing could compensate.
At first Ismail Yakoob and his colleagues were filled with curiosity and amusement at this phenomenal Englishman so different, not merely from themselves, but from other Europeans then apprehension seized them as to what he would do next in the way of exposing their neglect of duty, and finally only the capacity for one sentiment was left relief whenever he turned his back on Khartoum.
The French empress then arrived in Alexandria, and was received by Ismail and Francis Joseph with salutes of guns and the acclamations of the people. The next day the French imperial yacht Aigle, with the empress on board, proceeded to steam up the canal, being followed by forty vessels.
Ismail Pacha had made great improvements in Khartoum, and he had completed the new government house that had been commenced by his predecessor, Moomtazz Pacha, who was also a most intelligent Circassian.
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