He also
granted a reward to the soldiers who had fought the battle of Masindi,
and marched through eight days of ambuscades to Foweera.
A gratuity of a month's pay was given to every English engineer and
mechanic, and they started for England.
After a delay of about six weeks in Egypt, his Highness afforded us a
gracious and hospitable occasion of taking leave of himself and the
young princes, to all of whom I am indebted for much courtesy and
kindness.
CHAPTER XXVII.
CONCLUSION.
The foregoing chapters will have afforded a sufficiently distinct view
of the expedition to enable the public to form their own opinion of the
position of the slave trade.
It will have been seen that I had acted directly against that infamous
traffic from the commencement of the work, according to the explicit
instructions of my firman; at the same time I had made due allowances
for the ambiguous position of the traders upon the White Nile, who were
actual tenants of the government. Thus I never visited the interior of
their camps, nor had I disturbed their stations in any way, but I had
passed them as without the pale of my jurisdiction; at the same time I
gave the vakeels due warning, and entirely prevented them from making
use of the river as the highway of the slave trade.
