WARS OF THE NINETIES.

r 152 flotilla had now been brought to bear on them, but there was no check in their advance;and nowMaxwell's,Lewis's,andMacDonald'sbrigades added some thousands of rifles to the storm of fire that was pouring from all the curving front of the camp. The Dervishes werereplying, and the front of their advance was white with drifting smoke. They had got their Krupp guns into action on the shoulder of Jebel Surgham, but the shells' burst some hundreds of yards of the Faith," poured over the slopes of the KerreriHills,its objective being the right ofthe Sirdar's line. But it came in contact with the mass of the mounted troops, which, to avoid being crushed by the mere weight ol -eperioi numbers, were retiring northward along tin. Nile bank. At first Broadwood moved his squadrons slowly, bringing Major Young's horse battery into action against the Dervishes and harassing them with the carbine fire of OPENING FIRE UPON THE DERVISHES.

short, well out in front of the British division, giving at first the impression that some of the gunboats on the river were making bad practice. At this stage of the attack the losses of the Dervishes must have been enormous. They were falling literally by hundreds; but still they came on, their front line torn by bujlet and shell,being within 800 yards of the camp. "Iam sorry' for those brave men!" exclaimed Count Calderari, the Italian attache, as sitting his dismounted troopers. His object was thus to cover the retirement of Tudwav's camel corps. But his small force was so hard pressed by the thousands of Dervishes who pi forward, firing heavily as they came, that heha I at last to leave thecamel corps, who sought the protection of the gunboats on the river-bank.

Screened by the spur of the hills that runtowards the river near Kerreri from any fire from the camp, the Dervish column had pushed 111 between the mounted troops and the Sirdars army. They pouredsuch a heavy rifle fire into the battery that numbers of the horses were killed or maimed, and it was impossible to fully horse more than four of the guns. The other on his horse beside, the Sirdar he watched the Khalifa's spearmen thus recklessly rushing to destruction.

The left attack, directed by the' Khalifa'-on Osman,known as the Sheikh-edDin, or "Chief