142 attention from others to gain, this attention is good, and God's will, and we will do our utmost its history, to the western bank of the Nuhur, and we will spend one night there to take enough water, and proceed in God's safety towards the upper part of the road, which has been decided upon. And the firing at us by the wretched ones has ceased, on this day and yesterday, and not the slightest of them has appeared around us. And in addition to our not being harassed these two days, our thoughts have been occupied with understanding the reason for this, as this matter is not without a real cause. On Sunday, October 28, 1883, at 1 AM, we departed from point Al-Ra'd, heading for the western bank of the Nuhur, as agreed. After half an hour of travel and exiting Al-Ruzaybah, they fired at us, one shot after another. Their number is approximately no more than ten Arabs. No one in the army sustained the slightest injury. They returned with what we had gained during our journey of an hour and a half, without us paying them any attention. And as soon as we left the Nuhur, Al-Khubayri, Ahmed Subaih, and three or four other horsemen from our group, who were scouts, approached us with great joy and happiness. They reported that they had seen, at a distance of two hundred meters, one of the Arab sheikhs riding his horse. When the sheikh saw them and realized they were from the Egyptian army, he informed them that he was seeking safety and was coming to the government with his Arabs. They told him that he had arrived three days ago, and that due to the continued firing from us, he was unable to reach us. They then told him to come with them so they could escort him to His Excellency the Hakdar. They gave him the safety of God and His Messenger, the safety of the government, and the safety of His Excellency the Hakdar. When he heard this, he promised them that he would go to inform his Arabs, who were residing in this grazing land, and pointed to them from afar, about two hundred meters away, and to bring them with him. This ruse worked on them, and they left him returning to his Arabs, and they came back to them, bringing the good news. His Excellency the Hakdar, and His Excellency General Hicks Pasha, and all those present were pleased. His Excellency ordered the halt of the fort for a period of minutes, until the arrival of this sheikh and his Arabs. When they did not arrive after this period, His Excellency ordered the march, and a group of Shagiya and Bashi-bozuq went towards the grazing land, which this accursed one had indicated. They approached within five hundred meters and found them to be about forty horsemen and sixty to seventy Arabs. They called out to them, saying that they had been sent specifically by the Hakdar to escort them in safety. They circled their horses, sometimes moving away, sometimes coming closer, until they approached.