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The boy was then the slave of an Egyptian officer of the expedition. The army had suffered much from want of water, but they had obtained plenty from a lake within three days' march from El Obeid. From this point they were incessantly fired at, by the enemy. On the second day they were attacked, but beat off the enemy, though with heavy loss to themselves.
"And you found your uncle who had turned wild man?" observed Tom Strachan, as the two filled and lit their pipes after a capital repast. "Yes, poor fellow!" answered Harry. "Without him I don't suppose I should have got the will." "And where did you run your Egyptian clerk to earth?" "At El Obeid, and we got it out of him with the kourbash." "Of course; you know the cynical saying here.
"You are a generous enemy," Khatim said, "and we thank you. We give in our allegiance to the Egyptian government, and henceforth regard ourselves as its servants." "See, Mr. Hilliard, that the party takes sufficient food with it for their journey to El Obeid." Colonel Wingate stepped forward, and shook hands with the two emirs.
"I am the son of that white man whom you so kindly treated, at El Obeid, where he saved the life of your son Abu;" and he bowed to the younger emir. "Then he escaped?" the latter exclaimed. "No, sir. He was killed at Hebbeh, when the steamer in which he was going down from Khartoum was wrecked there; but I found his journal, in which he told the story of your kindness to him.
The next day, Zaki aided in carrying his sisters' goods down to the river bank, and saw them on board one of the native craft, which carried also fifteen or twenty other fugitives. "Now, Mr. Hilliard," General Hunter said, that morning, "you can devote yourself to the object for which you came here. Unquestionably, there must be many among the prisoners who fought at El Obeid.
As he advanced, his difficulties increased; the guides were treacherous, the troops grew exhausted, the supply of water gave out. He pressed on, and at last, on November 5th, not far from El Obeid, the harassed, fainting, almost desperate army plunged into a vast forest of gumtrees and mimosa scrub.
The defeat of Yusuf may be said to have been decisive so far as the active forces of the Khedive in the field were concerned, but the towns held out, and El Obeid, the capital of Kordofan, in particular defied all the Mahdi's efforts to take it.
The English-led Turk army has risen up and gone forth to meet me. It is Fate." He had a drink of water given to him, and then the General asked him if he knew El Obeid well. "Every street, every corner of the ramparts," he replied. "Did I not take part in the defence when the Mahdi may his grave be defiled! was driven from them with slaughter?" "You may ride with us," said the General.
Hitherto, they had been in constant apprehension lest the Dervishes should shun a battle, and would retire across the desert to El Obeid, or elsewhere; and that they would have to perform interminable desert marches, only to find, on arriving at the goal, that the enemy had again moved off.
It was at first universally believed that the Khalifa's intention was to retire to an almost inaccessible distance to El Obeid or Southern Darfur and the officers of the Egyptian army passed an unhappy fortnight reading the Ladysmith telegrams and accusing their evil fortune which kept them so far from the scene of action.
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