WARS OF THE NINETIES. 102 an isolated mound of earth, playing with all his might the " March of the Cameron Men." A Dervish volley was fired at him, andhe fell dead, riddled with bullets.

had their helmets pierced by bullets, and the third had his revolver holster torn. The purely Egyptian regiments had not been given such a prominent place in the attack as the Soudanese blacks, but they took their fair share in completing the victory. On the right the 8th battalion came to close quarters with the Dervishes on the west side of the camp. On theother flank Lewis dashed forward with two No less dash and pluck was shown by the Soudanese battalions and their leaders, black and white. Major Townshend, of the 12th Soudanese, the heroic defender of Chitral fort, had been on the sick list the day before,but he THE BRITISH CAMP ON I'HE ATBARA.

insisted onleading his regiment into battle, and in the rush for the zereba was well out before them, his revolver in one hand and a heavy stick in the other. " Bravo, Townshend!"

siinutedHunter, as hesawhim going in through the hedge of thorns. Of the five white officers of the battalion three werehit. Major Jackson's battalion (the Ilth) had the high honour of winning the race for the zereba and being first in. Their loss was the heaviest in the whole army— 108 killed and wounded outof a fighting strength of less than 700. Major Walter, of the oth battalion,and Major Shekelton, of the 14th, were wounded at the head of their men. In one regiment, of the three white officers twa.

ofhisEgyptian battalions,swept roundGatacre's flank, andpushed through the bush down to the river, driving a mass of the Mahdists before him whomhe caught trying to retire under cover of the dense scrub.

Here and there in the camp there was a small earthwork fort containing one or two brass cannon and forty or fifty Dervishes. Each ot these had to be attacked and stormed separately with the bayonet. In the midst of all, rising knoll ofgravelly ground, there wasa kind of central citadel —a square enclosure defended with a trench and stockade of hard sunk woe ' logs. It wasmanned by some of the bravest 0: the Baggaras, and they met the first rush ol