36 WARS OF THE NINETIES abandoned works at Dongola. Largequantities ofarms andammunition anda greatstore of dates and grain were also the prize of the victoss.

Numbers of prisoners were taken in the pursuit, but hundreds of the unwilling allies of the.

Dervishes eitherwaited in the town to surrender or camein during the day. Among these were a number of the powerful Jaalin tribe, ones the most devoted champions of Mahdism. Their Emir,Hassan-en-Nejumi,surrendered with them. He was the cousin of the famous Mohammed describing the impression made by that magnificent advance on those who saw it.

The gunboats had already opened with shell fire on theMahdist position. Thecavalryscouts, wellout in advance, had exchanged a few shots with the Dervish outposts, and reported that they appeared to be ready to make a stand. The battle was about to begin,when word was brought in that the Dervishes were everywhere retiring, and that many of them were already in flight to the south of the town.

A NUBIAN DETACHMENT OF THE CAMEL CORPS-Wad-cn-Nejumi, who led the stormers at Khartoum and fell at Toski. Hassanhad been slightly wounded by a shell from the horse batteryon June 8th, the morning when Suarda was abandoned. Amongst those who surrendered there were also a number of the Jehadia or black riflemen. They were most eager to be enrolled at once in the Sirdar's Soudanese regiments.

The gunboats reached Debbeh on the bend of the Nile,eighty milessouthof Dongola, at noon on September 24. They arrived just in time to rescue a number of the leading men of the Dongola province, who were beingcarried oft as The Camel Corps, the cavalry, and the horse battery at once hurried forward in pursuit. Here and there they were met by a few desperadoes, who preferred to die fighting rather than give way with the rest. Most of these detached skirmishes took place after the town hadbeenpassed. The infantry brigadesmarched cheering over the Dervish position and into Dongola without siring a shot. Before they got in the gunboats had landed a party andhoisted the Egyptian flag on the ruins of theoldGovernment House. They then steamed away southwards to helpin thepursuit.

Three Krupp guns were found in the