A few more shells screeched high overhead or burstineffectually into the sandbanks of the screening island, then thegunners gave up and silence descended. But a British square does not break. The Ashraf whispered among themselves, and watched the KhalifaAbdullahi surreptitiously. The o-omi,Umako, also erected a temple called Hoko-ji in Asuka near Kara.
Thecommander of the centre is the Emir Osman Atalan of the Beja. An excellent idea, he agreed. London wasstarting to have second thoughts about rebuilding the army. Then hebraced himself, and turned his mind back to the jammed gun.
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