. Cassell's history of the war in the Soudan. 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
. Cassell's history of the war in the Soudan. 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. SOUDANESE SLAVE. Half of those present were Nubians,and Baker, while re-officering them fromtheir own ranks, awaited with im-patience the arrival of those Britishofficers who had volunteered to com-mand battalions and brigades. All this time the camp of the enemy,under Osman Digna, was distinctlyvisible from the tops of the was about nine miles distant, at thebrow of the hills that overlook Suakim. place, an ex-Austrian officer, urgentlydemanded reinforcements. He hadunder his orders only 1,000 troops,regular and irregular. Matters seemeddesperate everywhere. The Austrian Consul at Khartoum,writing to the President of the OrientalMuseum at Vienna, gave it as hisopinion that the Egyptian power overCentral Africa was at an end. Kor-dofan and Darfour are already lost. 102 CAS SELLS HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THE SOUDAN. and Fashoda and Farokl are forsakenbj the Egyptian garrisons. There hasbeen no communication with Ladosince April, and the steamer whichleft last June for Mishr -
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