. Cassell's history of the war in the Soudan. ould require4,000 camels, or 6,000 if the warsupplies along the Abyssinian frontierwere to be withdrawn. This reportadded, that a march from Berber toWady Haifa, through the desert, was aphysical impossibility, and, as the home-ward journey would be by the Nile,1,300 boats would be necessary. We have related how Bakers force,after all his toil and care, in attemptingto drill and discipline it at Suakim, wasrouted at El Teb on the 4th of Febru-ary, 1884, and while the spies of theenemy were hovering close round thetown, he held a melancholy parade o
. Cassell's history of the war in the Soudan. ould require4,000 camels, or 6,000 if the warsupplies along the Abyssinian frontierwere to be withdrawn. This reportadded, that a march from Berber toWady Haifa, through the desert, was aphysical impossibility, and, as the home-ward journey would be by the Nile,1,300 boats would be necessary. We have related how Bakers force,after all his toil and care, in attemptingto drill and discipline it at Suakim, wasrouted at El Teb on the 4th of Febru-ary, 1884, and while the spies of theenemy were hovering close round thetown, he held a melancholy parade ofthe remnants that had escaped. On that occasion a mixed battalionof Egyptians and Nubians, which hadcome from Cairo, refused to obey ordersof any kind. On this. Baker surroundedthem by a Soudan battalion, compelledthe mutineers to lay down their arms, 100 GASSELUS HISTORY OF THE WAE. IN THE SOUDAN. and marched tliem to the edge of the from the President of the Council atwater, when, with Sir William Hewetts Cairo, he was appointed Civil and. NATIVES READING THE PROCLAMATION OF THE BRITISH PROTECTORATE, StTAKIM. consent, they were lodged on board the Military Governor of Suakim by the Orontes troopship as prisoners. Government of the Khedive, conse- On the 10th of February the Admiral quently he declared the town to be in a notified by proclamation that, in state of siege and under martial with a telegram received On the following day Baker had SPREAD OF THE INSURRECTION. 101 another parade of all tlie troops hecould muster, for the inspection of SirWilliam Hewett. On the ground were3,000 men, and their apparent steadi-ness was wonderful, considering therecent disastrous exhibitiou they hadmade at the WeUs of El Teb. Before the beginning of Februarythe insurrection was speading south-wards as rapidly as northwards. Mr,Schuver, formerly a correspondent of theStandard in Albania, was barbarouslymurdered at Bahr Gazal (in SouthKordofan), and the Governor of that
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