He must suffer a hundredblows with the kurbash. As soon as he had completed the complicated ritual hedismissed the cooks, and ordered Rebecca to serve his food, but showedlittle interest in it. As it approached the river, it began awide circle high in the steely sky with the city of Omdurman as itscentre. He solved this delicate problem byselecting al-Noor and six other aggagiers to accompany him, ostensiblyas his jailers but in reality as his bodyguard.
There they were strapped to astool and tipped backwards over the wall of the fountain until theirheads were below the surface of the water. 'I am grateful to Wad Hagma for his assistance, but my question was,how much does he need? It was only as a last resort that Penrod hadagreed to enlist the assistance of the uncle in his plans. Has he been able to warn us when the Dervish will attack if theydo? No, sir, we don't know that, Penrod admitted, 'but I expect they willuse the new moon. icles to Jimmu's expeditionand would constitute a general confirmation of the Japanese accountof his line of advance.
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