You are in much danger.

The Emirs say to Mahmud that you ought to be killed; their followers are well-nigh starving--why should an infidel prisoner be eating?
His friends are now close to us, and there will be a battle.

None will be spared on either side--why should this man be spared?
"Mahmud has many cares.

The men are furious because he will not lead them out to fight.

Even the emirs are sullen; and Osman Digna, who was on bad terms with him a short time ago, and who, Mahmud suspects, is intriguing with them against him, is foremost in urging that an attack should take place; though everyone knows he is a coward, and never shows himself in battle, always running away directly he sees that things are going against him.