STORES. 107 charge of Deputy Commissary Nugent, C.B., an invaluable man, with a head like a calculatingmachine. His train consisted of about 800 camels, carrying stores of all sorts, and driven by Aden boys, negroes, and natives of all sorts, clothed in a red turban, a blue jersey, a haversack, and a brass ticket nothing more. The reason for such a large quantity of stores was that it was intended to form a large depot at Metemmeh before advancing on Khartoum ; and this was the first instalment provisions for 1500 men for a month.