NINETIES WARS OF THE 28 hanging at his saddle. On the Sunday evening Burn-Murdoch occupied Koyekeh without any resistance, the Dervish post there having retreated on hearing the news of the morning's fight. Suarda was reached at dawn on Monday, just as the last of the garrison were landing on the west bank of the Nile, after hurriedly evacuating the place, and taking all the boats with them. Burn-Murdoch was able to send a miles with their dead. Wherever they attempted a stand the lances of the cavalry, the rifles of the CamelCorps, and the guns thathad spoken so effectively from the slopes below Ferkeh mountain, were soon upon them. Beyond Amara the villages were still partly inhabited, and the people afterwards told how, during that Sunday evening,small parties of the beaten Dervishes werepassing through inhasty "WHEREVER THEY ATTEMPTED TO MAKE A STAND, THE LANCES OF THE CAVALRY... WERE SOON UPON THEM."

few shells from his guns in among them before they got away. He then occupied Suarda, fifty-four miles from Akasha, and just halfway between Wady Haifa, the startingpoint of the expedition, and Dongola, its subjective.

flight, mostly mounted on camels. "We are goingaway for awhile," they said,"but we shall come back and retake all this country." Some of them were wounded. Among these was the Emir Karamallah,knowninEurope as the leader of the Dervish invaders who seized the Bahr-el-Ghazal and acted against Emin Pasha in the Equatorial Province. In oneof the villages he stopped, saying he could go no farther, and he died of his wounds during the night. Osman Azrak was also recognised, riding at the headof a party of camel-men. He wasunwounded,and had a revolver inhis belt and agood Martini rifle The full extent of the enemy's losses will probably neverbe precisely known. At least a thousandDervishes fell in the fight and pursuit, and five hundred more were made prisoners. The Egyptian loss was twenty killed and eightyone wounded. Only oneBritish officer, Captain Legge,was woundedin the action. One of the