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British political ambitions -70 What was and what became?

Stewart's description In a report submitted by Pasha to the Egyptian Sudan for the British government, he said: The country that the Egyptians now occupy and call "Sudan" is a very large, sprawling country, stretching from north to south - that is, from Aswan to the equator -about 20 degrees or 1000 miles, and its width 20 degrees or 1100 miles to 1030 miles, from Khartoum to western Darfur. If we start from a main point on the Red Sea coast to the east, on a parallel line to a certain western point in the Libyan desert, assuming the 20th degree the 27th degree east of Greenwich, and from there the line extends south to the south until the point of contact in the north of Darfur province to the west, then it extends straight 0, and then it goes approximately south to the 20th degree southeast to Lake Albert Nyanza and Lake Victoria Nyanza, and rises from north to east, including the Harrar province, then reaches the Indian Ocean at Ras Hafun, and follows the Red Sea coast until it returns to the main point. The British Foreign Ministry printed this report and submitted it to the British Parliament.

Stewart was the agent of Gordon Pasha, the governor-general of Sudan. Gordon sent him from Khartoum to Egypt to request reinforcements for his rescue, along with Abbas Pasha, the British Consul Stewart, the French Consul Monsieur Heran, Hassan Effendi Hasti from the English telegraph staff, 10 Jewish merchants, 10 artillery soldiers, and a cannon. Pasha Abbas towed four small boats carrying a group of Jewish, Syrian, and Greek merchants. The steamer collided with a steamer in the cataracts of Dagu, and they were dragged ashore near the village of Hiba, Sheikh Al-Salmat, and they thought he wanted to add them.

And the people of the village gathered and went to his house where they were given food.

The borders of Sudan were at the 20th degree beyond the equator.

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