134 WITH THE CAMEL CORPS UP THE NILE.

Many of these brave fanatics turned and charged the square singly, being of course shot down long before they reached it. When we saw the Arabs in full retreat the General gave the word, and we raised cheer after cheer a little attention evidently not appreciated by the enemy, many of whom turned and shook their fists at us. Oh, that we could have wheeled the front face up on the right of the Mounted Infantry and slated them a bit more ! Hardly one of the enemy would have escaped.

This, however, was not to be thought of; for we expected another immediate charge from the right, since certainly not all the enemy we had seen had taken part in the unsuccessful attack. Very soon there was a cry of " Close up ! close up ! they're coming again !

" However, they didn't come, and contentec themselves with a dropping long - range fire from behind their rocks. Every now and then one of their marksmen would creep down into the broken ground and take pot-shots at the square till he was pottec himself. One of our best men (Ormiston, 3rd Grenadiers) was shot by one of these brutes. As he was