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Updated: May 27, 2025
"Achmed!" he began with such discourteous curtness did he address the Sultan! "Achmed! 'tis the wish of Halil Patrona that thou descend from the throne and give it up to Sultan Mahmud...." Achmed sat bolt upright in his chair.
On the same day the enemy were reported moving northwards to Aliab, and it became evident that Mahmud had begun his advance. He started from Shendi with a force which has been estimated at 19,000 souls, but which included many women and children, and may have actually numbered 12,000 fighting men, each and all supplied with a month's rations and about ninety rounds of ammunition.
As to the fact that she was not of the same race or religion, he would never give it a thought. It would be quite enough for him that she was a woman." "And you," Mahmud said, turning to Zaki, "you are a Jaalin, are you not?" "I am." "Jaalin or Baggara, you are my friend," Mahmud said, placing his hand on Zaki's shoulders. "And so you, too, leapt overboard to save a woman?"
Sahib, even I pitied the creature and slew it quickly with my knife. And it was this that Ibrahim Mahmud had intended for the blue eyes of my beautiful brother. This was the vengeance of which men should speak in whispers. Those who saw and heard that puppy would speak of it in whispers indeed or not at all. I felt sick and my fingers itched to madness for the throat of Ibrahim Mahmud.
I shall speak highly of you in my letter, and recommend you to Colonel Wingate; who will, I have no doubt, give you employment. "I hope I shall see you again, before long. I am very sorry that we must part, but it is best for us both." Very reluctantly, Zaki returned to Mahmud. "My master says I must go, Emir; and I must obey his orders, though I would rather stay with him. Tonight, I will leave."
The cavalry went out to reconnoitre, and had constant skirmishes with the enemy's horse; but when day after day passed, and Mahmud did not come, as the Sirdar had expected, to attack him, it was determined to take the offensive. General Hunter was ordered to move forward, with the whole of the cavalry and a Maxim-gun battery, to discover the exact position of the enemy.
Even the emirs are sullen; and Osman Digna, who was on bad terms with him a short time ago, and who, Mahmud suspects, is intriguing with them against him, is foremost in urging that an attack should take place; though everyone knows he is a coward, and never shows himself in battle, always running away directly he sees that things are going against him.
"Mahmud is in a very difficult position. He is controlled by his father at Khartoum.
Had the Khalifa allowed the Emir Mahmud to march north immediately after the destruction of the Dervish outpost in Abu Hamed, the course of the operations would have been very different. Mahmud would certainly have defended Berber with his whole army. The advance of the Expeditionary Force must have been delayed until the Desert Railway reached the river, and probably for another year.
The young Kordofan general saw his opportunity, and begged to be allowed to seize it. But it was not until the Khalifa had sent his own army back into the city that, being very badly informed of the numbers and disposition of the Egyptian force, he allowed the Metemma Dervishes to move. Mahmud received permission to advance at the end of January. He eagerly obeyed the longed-for order.
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