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The Indian Review August 1885

1885

Not only will this great advantage be lost by the abandonment of Khartoum but any enemy in possession of that capital would have it in their power to effect the ruin of Lower Egypt by dividing the waters of the Nile at that point and by causing them to disperse throughout the sands of the desert and dry up the great river to the utter ruin of the agriculture of all districts below that region [...] The author of " Egypt's Proper Frontier" is naturally astonished and indignant at the blindness and infatuation of the Liberal Ministry "No Man's Land 627 wbo rejecting the counsels of the present Viceroy of India sent forth the fiat of ruthless abandonment contenting itself with loose talk about the protection of friendly tribes and the establishment of a' strong and permanent Government at Kh [...] The children and they become thoroughly identified with the country and surroundings of those who own them." To this description he adds the following remarks :— " To sum up briefly the curse of slavery is not the actual holding of slaves but the misery caused by the destruction of villages the severing of family ties and the cruelties perpetrated in the work of capture. [...] Another point in the argument in favour of opening up the country by means of a railway and irrigation is that relating to the capacity of the Arabs or rather of the Soudanese to do their share of the work. [...] Touches of the Oriental method appear it is true here and there in Kopal-Kundala as in the long and luscious description crowded with poetic similes of the beauty of Moti or Lutufonissa the rival of Kopal-Kundala for the love of Nobokumar the hero of the tale—of her whose skin was of the rich brown colour of molten gold." " If the rays of the full moon on the dawn crowned with golden clo
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