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I wrote an official letter to Djiaffer Pacha, protesting against delay, and reminding him of the Khedive's instructions." The only authority who, I believe, takes a real interest in the expedition is Ismail Bey, who is a highly intellectual and clever man. This Bey is the President of the Council, and I have known him during many years.
He declared that he would always remain the faithful representative of the Khedive's government, but at the same time we must IMMEDIATELY EXCHANGE BLOOD; without which ceremony, the people would not rise in his favour.
It is supposed that about 15,000 of the Khedive's subjects who should have been industriously working and paying their taxes in Egypt were engaged in the so-called ivory trade and slave-hunting of the White Nile.
He guessed who had filled the Khedive's mind with cupidity. He had seen old Selamlik Pasha, who had lent the Khedive much money, entering the palace as he left with Kingsley Bey thirty-six hours before. He had hope that he could save the situation, but meanwhile he was concerned for the new situation created here at Assiout. What would Kingsley do?
I was now at Masindi, beyond the farthest station of Abou Saood, and I should certainly insist upon the return of every slave that had been kidnapped from this country. This would at once prove to the inhabitants of Unyoro the benefit of the Khedive's protection. "April 27.-Kabba Rega had arranged to return my visit. The troops were lined on either side of this approach in their best uniforms.
Premonition, a troubling of the spirit, told her that she was in the presence of a crisis out of which she would not come unchanged. Dicky was talking now, helping her asking the Pasha questions of his journey up the river, of the last news from Europe, of the Khedive's health, though he and Kingsley had only left Cairo a half-day before the Pasha.
There was urgent need of action, but there was more urgent need of his making no mistake, of his doing the one thing necessary, for Sowerby could only be saved in one way, not many. It was useless to ask the Khedive's intervention Ismail dared not go against Selamlik in this.
But the gold is not there; only Kingsley Bey's credit." "His slaves shall die to-morrow morning." "Not so, Highness." The Khedive's fingers twisted round the chair-arm savagely. "Who will prevent it?" "Your Highness will. Your Highness could not permit it the time is far past. Suppose Kingsley Bey gave you his whole fortune, would it save one palace or pay one tithe of your responsibilities?
So after a few days in Cairo he started for the south, going first, by the khedive's orders, to try and bring about a peace with the kingdom of Abyssinia. This he did to a certain extent by 'setting a thief to catch a thief, that is, by holding one claimant to the throne in check by means of another.
Ismail Khedive had abdicated, and Tewfik his son ruled in his stead; and Gordon, dissatisfied with many things, finally threw up his post on account of the Slave Convention. Though he placed his resignation in the Khedive's hands, Tewfik begged him to undertake a mission to Abyssinia. While he was on the journey he wrote the following to Burton: "EN ROUTE TO MASSOWAH, RED SEA, "August 31, 1879.
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