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Updated: May 4, 2025
They rested for some hours, in the shade of a high rock, leaving the horses to pick what herbage they could find. At four o'clock they started again. They had ridden two hours, when Zaki said: "See, my lord, there are two men on the top of Jebel Sergain!" Gregory gazed in that direction. "Yes, I can notice them now, but I should not have done so, if you had not seen them."
"We shall have to be very careful there, my lord. It is not so very far from Metemmeh, and we are very likely to find Baggaras at the wells. It was there they met the English force that went through to Metemmeh. "I think it would be better for us to halt early, this evening, and camp at the foot of Jebel Sergain. The English halted there, before advancing to Abu Klea.
They travelled all night and, when the moon rose, were able to get along somewhat faster; but its light was now feeble and uncertain. As soon as day broke, they rode fast, and at ten o'clock had left behind the range of hills, stretching between the wells of Abu Klea and Jebel Sergain. "We ought to be safe now," Gregory said, as they dismounted. "At any rate, the horses must have a rest.
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