ABSTRACT
If the Sirdar had to fight the Khedive in order to compel that ruler to do justice to the British officers of the Egyptian army, he had likewise to wrestle with his fellow-countryman, Sir William Garstin, for every pound of gold that was given to the troops. Lord Cromer held on to the money of the fellah with a tenacity which will ever do him honour. He knew that Egypt is nothing but an oasis rescued from the desert by the waters of the Nile ; and he devoted every spare piastre to the improvement of irrigation. Sir William Garstin impersonated that service just as Kitchener incarnated the military genius of the new Egypt.
