250 WITH THE CAMEL CORPS UP THE NILE.

distributed along the river for summer quarters. This looked like an autumn campaign with a vengeance ; but still I for one did not believe that the British taxpayer in his cooler moments would sanction the cost of another expedition, and predicted we should be out of the country before June which, as it happened, was not very far out.

Shortly after this announcement, orders were issued detailing the various quarters for the various regiments.

Camps were to be formed at Merawi, Tani, Kurot, Dongola, and Hafir, and the big camp at Korti was to be entirely broken up, leaving only a small force of Soudanese blacks, these to be under the command of Commander J. Baker, R.N. We, the G.C.R., were destined for Dongola, there to remain till further orders.

So far good. The Heavies were to make a camp forty miles north of that at Hafir, the 42nd Highlanders to form the advanced post at Merawi, the iSth (Royal Irish), the Mounted Infantry, and the 75th (Gordon Highlanders) to go to Kurot, the 5oth (West Kent) and the 56th (Essex) to Tani, and the Lights to Shabadud ; other arms, such as the iQth Hussars, Ordnance, Com-