104 WITH THE CAMEL CORPS UP THE NILE.

On Wednesday, the I3th of January, the new column paraded outside the hills on the plain, and at 2 p.m. we moved off in columns of companies, Heavies leading, ourselves next, baggage and stores in the centre, and Mounted Infantry to bring up the rear.

The actual numbers were : Division, Naval Brigade, with one Gardner gun . . . about 30 of all ranks.

Heavy Camel Regiment . . 380 Three troops, iQth Hussars . 90 ,, Half Battery, Royal Artillery, with three 7-pounder screw guns . 30 Royal Engineers ,, 25 Guards' Camel Regiment . . 367 Mounted Infantry do. . . 360 Sussex 100 Medical and Commissariat Staff 45 Native drivers . . . 120 Total (roughly speaking), about 1500 men, 90 horses, and 2200 camels.

The Hussars were, of course, mounted on their own horses, little wiry grey Egyptian stallions, hardly deserving the name of horses. I should properly call them ponies, as not one reached fifteen