ABSTRACT
August .z5th. Yesterday evening, late, a messenger came in from Hamad Aga in Regaf saying Ali Aga & Mahomoud Effendi the two chief mutineers had just arrived from the Makraka country & said that they would not come & see the Pasha but that he might come & see them-which was extremely kind of them. So this morning by the Pasha's advice I wrote to Hamad Aga saying it had been my intention to come down to Regaf to speak with the people & read them our letters, but that they had behaved in such a way as to make it impossible for us to come down, I however enclosed the Khedive's letter which he would read to the officers now they were all assembled, & I requested him to tell them what I said in my letter & that anyone who wished to see me now must come to Duffile. The Pasha is inclined to think that when the chief rebels hear we are moving the stations, & particularly after they hear the news from Labore, that they will come down & remove all the· stations up to Duffile by force. Things really are getting very serious & from the first the Pasha said the Khedives letter would have a bad influence, he ought either commanded them to go to Egypt or to stay here, anything rather than leave it to the people to decide, but they are his orders & they must be carried out. At any rate the Pasha says had we arrived six months later he would have been lost, he could have held out against the natives, perhaps for another year, but when his people at Regaf turned rebels it was the hardest blow he had yet ,received ...
