WARS OF THE NINETIES. 168 seen moving by the desert towards the city. They were no longer marching inany military array, but plodding along in little detached groups, with here and there a mounted man walking his tiredhorse. Clearly there wouldbe no more show of opposition in the open, nor was any serious resistance anticipated in the streetsandbehind the walls of Omdurman.

The vanguardof the advancewas nowformed by twoSoudanesebattalions of Maxwell'sbrigade, close behind whom rode the Sirdar with hi? staff, accompanied by General Hunter. Slatin no way molested by the victors; whilstbetween our troopsand the river hundreds of Dervishes, who had thrown away their weapons, were making their way to the Nile bank to drinkand wash their wounds. Among them were even some of the Baggara horsemen, whorode down to water their tired chargers. A further proof that there was no general massacre of the wounded may be found in the fact that more than 7,000 wounded Dervishes were under the care of our own surgeons and the native doctors after the battle. The less seriously wounded THE BOMBARDMENT OF OMDURMAN:EFFECT OF A LYDDITE SHELL FIRED AT THE MAHDl's TOMB FROM MAJOR ELMSLIES HOWITZER BATTERY.

Pasha hadreceived messages fromhisold friends to the effect that the townsfolk would welcome thevictors, but that a party of the Jehadia(the Khalifa's riflemen) were still in occupation of the walled enclosure near the Mahdi's tomb. The gunboats steamed up and sent their shells in the direction of the now ruined dome, and the 32nd Field Battery was ordered to drop a salvo of shells atintervals inthe sameneighbourhood, so as to make it untenable for this last remnant of the defeated enemy.

would not be counted in this long number, for an Arab or negro of the Soudanlooks on it as something unmanly to go to the doctor unless he is very badly hit. The story circulated by certain sensation mongers that there was no quarter for the wounded was a slander on the Sirdar's gallantarmy. And thoughIamslightly anticipating the order of time in noting it here, Imay add that the British National Society for Helping the Wounded in War forwarded to Omdurman after the battle for the purchase of various little comforts for our wounded enemies.

As the gunboats came up close to the bank near the north end of the town a crowd of the townspeople, chiefly women, came down to the river's edge,holding up a white flag, and presenting peace-offerings of goats, chickens, cakes As the Sirdar's army pressed on towards the northern suburbs of the Mahdist capital, some thousands of the defeated Dervishes could be