The Sudan would never have been interjoined with this land [lam tultahim bi hädhä al-qatr] were it not for the blood of its men [Egyp- tians], would never have been subdued under the Ottoman flag if not for the resolution of its heroes, and the flow of its money. She is the maiden territory [al-aqtar ash-shäbah] in which the blood of martyrs has spilled, not so she would become easy prey [ghanïma barda] for the British, but rather to be the treasure [mudakhiran] of Egyptians, a wide sanctuary for the comfort of the two peoples, the source of all riches and the stop for all trade.

Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Coloni…, loc. 725