. Service & sport in the Sudan; a record of administration in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. With some intervals of sport and travel. attern. They had just replacedones made of packing-cases. The chairs, which wethought very swagger, were cane-bottomed. Thefloor was several inches deep in loose sand. The houses of the British officers were in a com-pound about a hundred yards square, the wall of whichwas the line of defence in case any need arose. Theentrance to it was the archway under a tower. Thelatter was a relic of the reckless expenditure of IsmailPasha. About five yards broad by six in depth
. Service & sport in the Sudan; a record of administration in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. With some intervals of sport and travel. attern. They had just replacedones made of packing-cases. The chairs, which wethought very swagger, were cane-bottomed. Thefloor was several inches deep in loose sand. The houses of the British officers were in a com-pound about a hundred yards square, the wall of whichwas the line of defence in case any need arose. Theentrance to it was the archway under a tower. Thelatter was a relic of the reckless expenditure of IsmailPasha. About five yards broad by six in depth andthirty feet high, and surmounted by the British andEgyptian flags, this edifice was at once the greatlandmark and the pride of the province. It was builtof bricks made in England ! carried by camels alongthe Forty-days Road (Darb el Arbain) from Assiut !The tower was covered with plaster, pitted all over bythe gun and rifle fire aimed at it by the Mahdist hordesin 1884 when it was held by a native Bimbashi and afew men. Their ghosts, headed by that of their intrepidofficer, who, cup of coffee in hand, encourages to the.
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