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Korti Abu Klea the Desert Column a steamer called the Safieh not the Condor, which rescued two other steamers wrecked on their way back from a Khartoum in the red hands of the Mahdi of those days. Then the smooth glide over deep water continues another Suakim expedition with a great deal of Osman Digna and renewed attempts to build the Suakim-Berber Railway.
"No," answered our hero, with quiet dignity, but without the slightest tinge of defiance either in tone or look. "Will you tell me how many men you have in Suakim?" "No." "Dare you refuse?" "Yes; it is against the principles of a British soldier to give information to an enemy." "That's right, John Miles," said Molloy, in an encouraging tone; "give it 'im hot! They can only kill us once, an' "
From Abu Simbel to Wady Halfa the river, escaped from the domination of the Pharaohs, begins to talk about dead white men. Thirty years ago, young English officers in India lied and intrigued furiously that they might be attached to expeditions whose bases were sometimes at Suakim, sometimes quite in the desert air, but all of whose deeds are now quite forgotten.
"Come along, then!" cried Miles, with the ardour of inexperienced youth. "Stop! are ye mad?" cried Stevenson. "Don't it stand to reason that the enemy must be between us an' Suakim? and that's the same as sayin' they're between us an' our friends.
The next morning the detachment of the 1st Hussars, eighty strong, marched down to the station with one hundred men of the 10th Hussars. They took train for Suez. Here they found another two hundred and twenty-eight men of the 10th who had come on by an earlier train, and the work of embarking the horses on board the steamer that was to take them down to Suakim at once began.
General Graham, left in command on the Red Sea littoral, was allowed to take action against the Mahdi's lieutenant who was threatening Suakim, and who was driven back with heavy loss; but he might not follow up the victory. The English Government hoped to withdraw the garrisons in safety, without force of arms.
Suakim would have been the best place in some respects, because there are lots of English there and we should have no difficulty in getting money to pay the sheiks; but after all it is only a question of a week or two's delay at the most.
These had marched from Suakim to Berber, two hundred and eighty-eight miles, in fifteen days, an average of nineteen miles a day a record for such a march, and one that no European force could have performed. One day, after marching thirty miles, they came to a well and found it dry, and had to march thirty miles farther to another water hole, a feat probably altogether without precedent.
The men gathered on the forecastle and the officers on the poop were alike gazing hard at a town of brilliant whiteness, which became more distinct every minute. "And that is Suakim," said one of the group of officers. "It looks very clean at a distance. What is it made of, doctor?"
Ross has kindly told me that I am at liberty to resign my post, under him, as soon as I like." "Very well, then. You may consider yourself appointed, today. My intention is to go first to Suakim, and thence up to Berber, and so by water to Khartoum." The next three weeks passed rapidly.
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