256 WITH THE CAMEL CORPS UP THE NILE.

tion of mud huts, some 200 yards back. In this space were already erected several large Indian tents, and the double bell tents we had brought with us from Korti were speedily put up for the men's shelter. As the daily-increasing heat would soon be too great for life in tents, the orders were that straw huts should be commenced at once, allowing twenty men to a hut.

Lord Wolseley was (supposed to be) going to make Dongola his headquarters, with General Duller as Chief of the Staff; but, besides his staff, part of the 1 9th Hussars, a detachment of the Sussex, and the Naval Brigade, there were going to be very few English troops there at all. In the place of troops was a huge Commissariat and Ordnance Store just above our camp ; behind us, on the road leading to the .town, was a portion of Egyptian artillery and cavalry, and scattered about near the stores were the tents of the C.T.C. and O.S.C. ; subsequently came half a battery of R.A. and a half-company R.E. That was all.

For view from our camp we had a high bank of sancl on the opposite shore, unrelieved by rocks or