Excerpt from '83 to '87 in the Soudan, Vol. 1: With an Account of Sir William Hewett's Mission to King John of Abyssinia; With Map The fanatical tribes of the Soudan or followers of the dervishes are not enough to account for the rebellion. There can be no doubt that the backbone of the movement consists of the slave dealers and all those persons discontented, who are many, with the Egyptian rule as at present administered. The state of affairs has been brought about by the Egyptians themselves: by their neglect of warnings, by their failure to improve their communications and in taking stringent measures in time, to strike when they were in a position to do so, and by temporizing with and caressing those who had already risen in rebellion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.