2C4 WITH THE CAMEL CORPS UP THE NILE.

near Gebel en Nus ; they were being led by Cochrane (now Dundonald) of the 2nd Life Guards, who always made a bee-line per compass for his point, without reference to landmarks or tracks : this accounted for Sir C. Wilson's party missing them. After a comfortable night's rest we started for the pass of Abu Klea, just visible in the dim distance, and reached the battle-field about 2 p.m. During the last four days the Heavies left there had raised a big cairn of stones over the graves of our men ; but hundreds of the dead enemy were still unburied. It struck me that there seemed more dead lying about then than on the actual day of the fight perhaps because I had a better view from the top of my camel than from the ground on the former occasion ; the enemy's loss had been estimated at about 1300, yet, though scores had been buried, there seemed quite that number still on the ground. On examining the position closely, it was evident that the Arabs had made grand preparations for destroying the column in the pass ; shelter-trenches and rifle-pits in abundance, and with many empty cartridge-cases in them, flanked the defile