Do you think that they would have remained so long in the town, if they had learned that there are but two hundred of us, and one steamer?
Mahmud would never have forgiven them, had they not fallen upon us and annihilated us.

I only hope that two hundred will have been left there.

It will add to our glory, to have won a battle, as well as taken the town.

Your children will talk of it in their tents.

Your women will be proud of you, and the men of the black regiments will say that we have shown ourselves to be as brave as they are.
"We will halt for half an hour, rest the camels, and then push on at full speed again; but mind, you have my orders: if you should see the enemy coming in force, you are to ride at once to the river bank, dismount, and make the camels lie down in a semicircle; then we have but to keep calm, and shoot straight, and we need not fear the Dervishes, however many of them there may be." After the halt they again pushed forward.