When Allah made the Sudan, he laughed
When Allah made the Sudan, he laughedArab Proverb
Jack surveyed the beach at Trinkitat on the Red Sea coast of Sudan. After a short spell in Suakin, they had accompanied Baker’s army southward, ready to march and face Osman Digna.
Gentle waves broke on the sand, with the sky an unbroken blue from horizon to horizon. In England, Jack thought, such a scene would encourage hordes of pleasure seekers, families with children paddling in the sea, bathing huts with shy women cautiously taking to the water and laughter rising over everything. Here in Sudan, the beach only invited slave traders and an invading army.
A host of steamships waited offshore, transports for the infantry, artillery, and cavalry with all their attendant stores. Augmenting the steam
