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`` No . Broadwood , with two regiments of Egyptian cavalry and the camel corps , started in pursuit of the Khalifa and Osman , an hour after it was found that they had got away . Slatin Pasha went with them . But as the horses had been at work all day , they had to stop at half past eight . They could not then get down to the water , and bivouacked where they had halted . At four in the morning they started again , and at half past eight found a spot where they could get down to the river ; then they rode fifteen miles farther . `` They were now thirty-five miles from Omdurman .