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His firm conviction that the Khedive's rule and the power of the Europeans could be easily overthrown, got so instilled into the souls of the populace they could restrain their hot-blooded feelings no longer, and on an ever-memorable day in June 1882, broke out in one of the bloodiest riots of modern times.
Infantry....... MACDONALD'S BRIGADE 3rd Egyptian IXth Soudanese Xth " XIth " Major-General Sir Archibald Hunter, the officer to whom the operation was entrusted, was from many points of view the most imposing figure in the Egyptian army. He had served through the Nile Expedition of 1884-85, with some distinction, in the Khedive's service.
I shall be coming home again in six months, unless the Mahdi makes trouble. Laguerre was three years in the Khedive's service, and with his influence an ex-captain of the French army should have little difficulty in getting a commission in Egypt. Then, after that, I really will come home. But not as an ex-soldier. This time I shall come home on furlough.
A stranger needed only to look at it once, glittering in the sun, creamy white in the shade, to decide that its owner was of high rank possibly a noble possibly the Emperor himself. The hospital was destroyed by fire. For years it was then known as the "Khedive's Garden," being a favorite resort for festive parties from the capital.
I heard you were. Didn't you invent a new motor-pump that drove all the other types out of the field? And besides that Abyssinian railway. Oh well, well!" he sighed, "it's a good thing somebody's lucky. The rest of us shouldn't complain. But how about the other two Klaus Brock and Ferdinand Holm? What are they doing now?" "Klaus is looking after the Khedive's estates at Edfina.
The original of this letter was given by me to H.H. the Khedive, and I also had printed a brochure containing it and a sort of exposé to the people of Soudan why the revolt had been put down viz. that it was not a question of slave-hunting, but one of revolt against the Khedive's authority. Copies of this must exist.
My old friends now assured me, in reply to my explanation of the Khedive's intentions, that the whole country would rally around a good government, and all that the poor people desired was protection and justice.
General Gordon agreed to accept the post of President of this Commission of Inquiry, and he also fell in with the Khedive's own wish and suggestion that the Commissioners of the Debt should not be members of the Commission. This point must be carefully borne in mind, as the whole negotiation failed because of the Khedive's weakness in waiving the very point he rightly deemed vital for success.
Now, after many years, I saw it first quietly by moonlight after watching the sunset from the summit of the great pylon. That was a pageant worth more than the Khedive's. I was in the air; had something of the released feeling I have often known upon the tower of Biskra, looking out toward evening to the Sahara spaces.
Human nature is weak and she has become a slavedriver, after all. But he is her only slave, and he hugs his bondage. Looking from the minaret the Two could see, far off, the Pyramids of Ghizeh and Sakkara, the wells of Helouan, the Mokattam Hills, the tombs of the Caliphs, the Khedive's palace at distant Abbasiyeh. Nearer by, the life of the city was spread out.
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