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On the 22d, at the rising of the moon, the camp proceeded, and halted in the forenoon on the beach of the river, opposite Halfya, a very large village on the easterly bank. We stayed here till the twenty-sixth to obtain durra from this territory, whose chief brought, as a present to the Pasha, some fine horses and many camels, and received, in return, some valuable presents.
The instructions went over most of the ground of yesterday's debate and were too vague. When I asked the crucial question: the enemy's strength? K. thought I had better be prepared for 40,000. How many guns? No one knows. Who was in command? Djavad Pasha, it is believed. But, K. says, I may take it that the Kilid Bahr Plateau has been entrenched and is sufficiently held.
He sat on his cushion aghast. "Jacob Lancey," continued the Pasha in a familiar tone that sent a thrill to the heart of his visitor, "hae ye forgotten your auld Scotch freen' and school-mate Sandy? In Sanda Pasha you behold Sandy Black!" Lancey sprang to his knees the low couch rendering that attitude natural grasped the Pasha's extended hand, and gazed wistfully into his eyes.
Well, if `de morrow' ever comes, w'ich I doubt, Sanda Pasha will find 'e 'as made a most hegragious mistake of some sort. 'Owever that's 'is business, not mine."
My disguised Montenegrin guide who was pledged to hand me over safe and sound to Voyvoda Lakitch at Andrijevitza signalled to me in great anxiety. Each day he remained on Turkish territory he risked detection and the loss of his life. I returned therefore to the Patriarchia, recovered my passport from the Pasha and was given by him a mounted gendarme to ride with me as far as Berani.
Abyssinia is entirely at the mercy of Egypt. Moosa Pasha subsequently started with several thousand men to drive the Abyssinians from Gallabat, which position they had occupied in force with the avowed intention of marching upon Khartoum; but upon the approach of the Egyptians they fell back rapidly across the mountains, without a sign of showing fight.
Osman Pasha, the single Turkish commander of ability that the war developed, occupied the town of Plevna with such forces as he could gather, fortified it as strongly as possible, and from its walls defied the Russians. The invaders dared not advance and leave this stronghold in their rear.
"Well, my bold bey," said Donovan Pasha to him at last, "what do you think of Egypt now?" "I'm not thinking of Egypt now." "Did the lady deeply sympathise? Did your prescription work?" "You know it didn't. Nothing worked. This fool Foulik came at the wrong moment." "It wouldn't have made any difference. You see you were playing with marked cards, and that is embarrassing.
I reached the camp about three hours after sun-set; but the last stragglers did not arrive till midnight. Numberless fires were seen lighted on an extent of ground of three or four miles in length; and high and brilliant clusters of lamps marked the different places of encampment of Mohammed Aly, Soleyman Pasha, and the Emir el Hadj of the Egyptian caravan.
It was our first duty to present ourselves to the commandant of the peninsular forces, Field-Marshal Liman von Sanders Liman Pasha, as he is generally called in Turkey and the captain found a carriage, presently, and sent us away with a soldier guard. Our carriage was a talika, one of those little gondola-like covered wagons common in the country.
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