{"id":379,"date":"2026-03-15T07:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T07:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/word\/?p=379"},"modified":"2026-03-15T07:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T07:47:06","slug":"while-at-khartoum-i-happened-to-find-mahommed-iler-the-vakeel-of-chenoodas-party-who-had-instigated-my-men-to-mutiny-at-latooka-and-had-taken-my-deserters-into-his-employ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aberth.com\/samuelwhitebaker\/while-at-khartoum-i-happened-to-find-mahommed-iler-the-vakeel-of-chenoodas-party-who-had-instigated-my-men-to-mutiny-at-latooka-and-had-taken-my-deserters-into-his-employ\/","title":{"rendered":"While at Khartoum I happened to find Mahommed Iler! the vakeel of Chenooda’s party, who had instigated my men to mutiny at Latooka, and had taken my deserters into his employ"},"content":{"rendered":"

While at Khartoum I happened to find Mahommed Iler! the vakeel of Chenooda’s party, who had instigated my men to mutiny at Latooka, and had taken my deserters into his employ. I had promised to make an example of this fellow; I therefore had him arrested and brought before the divan. With extreme effrontery, he denied having had anything to do with the affair. Having a crowd of witnesses in my own men, and others that I had found in Khartoum who had belonged to Koorshid’s party at that time, his barefaced lie was exposed, and he was convicted. I determined that he should be punished, as an example that would insure respect to any future English traveller in those regions. My men, and all those with whom I had been connected, had been accustomed to rely most implicitly upon all that I had promised, and the punishment of this man had been an expressed determination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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