They found Mahmud in the usual attitude in which the Dervish emirs await death, when they are conquered.

He was sitting quietly on his mat, with his arms laid down beside him; and was, I should imagine, somewhat surprised at finding that he was not cut to pieces, at once." "I am glad he was not, sir, for he certainly behaved well to me.

It was through the influence of his wife, I admit; but in sparing me he really risked serious disaffection among his followers, and at last gave way only to coercion." The sergeant and men had now come up, and Gregory went off with them.
Three or four hundred women were seated on the ground together, with half a dozen Egyptian soldiers standing as sentry over them.

More or less closely veiled as they were, Gregory could not distinguish Fatma among them; and indeed, except when he first reached her in the water, he had not got a glimpse of her features.

The question, however, was speedily settled when a woman rose, in the middle of the group, with a cry of gladness.
"So you are saved!" she exclaimed, "I have feared so that you were killed.