In delay, it is more than if we had cut the road by a mile. This is an English myth and their foresight. If we say that he meant to reach the water quickly, does he not realize what the result would be if we encountered the enemy inside the forest? This is truly strange. This incident was a lighter mercy compared to what we encountered after the afternoon, at 9:30 Arab time, while we were marching. The Colonel himself went ahead, and after he disappeared for a distance, he returned and said that it was to reach the stream quickly, while we were walking on a high hill. We must cross through this forest... to the stream, and he pointed with his hand to a patch of forest that, seen from the hill, looked as if it wasn't there... only light grass and some acacia trees. When we descended into the lowlands, I found a straight path, and on its left, a forest with tall trees, unlike [what was above]. Despite knowing with certainty the height of its trees and the presence of a type of bamboo reaching five or six meters, the Khubayri did not approve, fearing blame. So he followed the path and walked on it. His Excellency the Governor-General followed him for half an hour. Then General Hicks Pasha shouted and asked me, "Where is the Khubayri?" I told him that he had gone ahead on this path with His Excellency the Governor-General. He said, "How is that, when Colonel Farquharson knew when passing here and sent a messenger to call him while he was angry? He brought him, and His Excellency the Governor-General also came. He ordered to enter the forest on the northern side. The army lined up in formation and entered the forest as ordered. At that time, I saw His Excellency the Governor-General find a path inside the bamboo, so I followed it. We walked inside for about an hour, and it did not end. The bamboo was five to six meters high, so one could not see or discern what was beside him even one meter away. Meanwhile, His Excellency the Governor-General disappeared from my sight, and I was left with four men, bewildered, wondering how this path would end. I could only hear the commotion of the army from a distance, impossible to return to [me]. Following the tracks of His Excellency the Governor-General, I did not find him. Each group of the army and the expedition was lost in a different direction, unaware of each other. While I was lost like the others, I heard a caller calling us from the right, saying, "Here is the road." I immediately turned towards the sound and walked for ten minutes without seeing anyone. I emerged onto a somewhat open piece of land with low grass, and I found