io6 WITH THE CAMEL CORPS UP THE NILE.

Lieutenants Piggott, Munro, and De Lisle, brought one Gardner gun with them, but were only allowed 1000 rounds of ammunition. Considering that the gun* fired over 100 rounds a minute, this was only allowing it ten minutes' work at the outside more false economy.

The three guns brought by the Artillery were 7lb. screw guns (i.e. made to screw together), three powerful camels carrying one gun and ammunition between them ; 100 rounds per gun were brought. The next four divisions have been already described : it only remains for me to say a word about the Medical, Bearer Company, Commissariat, and Transport arrangements. Besides the camels carrying stretchers and medical stores, and the doctors superintending them, a large quantity of camels had been fitted for the reception of sick and wounded, with litters and cacolets. These were in charge of a section of the Bearer Company, an offshoot of the Medical Staff during war time, and most useful they proved. The Commissariat was in immediate * The identical ill-fated one that jammed at Tamai.