DETAILS OF THE ORGANIZATION. 1 85 passed through. Along the coast at the seaport towns the same hearty feeling manifested itself. Commanding officers of local corps delivered heroic speeches to the volunteers; ladies decorated them with ribbons of red, white, and blue; mayors made very vehement if not strictly grammatical orations, and poured out libations of strong liquor to the god Mars. Electric lights, blue lights, red lights, green lights, and every other sort of light were burned. Everybody wanted to shake hands with them ; they were no longer referred to as men but as 'heroes;' they were glorified in the local newspapers, lauded by town-councils, and held up as patterns by rustic parsons. During these two exciting weeks there was no prouder boast of a mother than, ' My boy has gone to the war.'

" The war office here undertook to send ammunition for artillery guns and to provide for conveyance of supplies, and also to take charge of the forage and the rations for the troops on the same scale as that adopted for the imperial forces. General Graham had intimated that the i6-pounder guns would be too heavy for the Soudan, and therefore the war office sent word that only liorses and harness should be supplied, and that a 6-gun 9-pounder battery of 6-cwt. guns and ammunition and carriages complete would meet the company at Suakim.

This change prevented the necessity of sending Colonel Roberts with the expedition, much to that officer's regret. Colonel Spalding was in command of the artillery, and rapidly completed the effective arrangements, including a provision for a number of revolvers to be sent from England to meet the men on their arrival at Suakim, so that each man of the artillery might be armed with one of these weapons and a full supply of ammunition.

The ambulance corps attached to the expedition was as complete as the other departments; the officers were Surgeon-major Williams, and Surgeons Glanville and Proudfoot, with two non-commissioned officers, two dispensers, and twenty-four trained bearers, many of whom were experienced men in army hospital service. There were five ambulance wagons, fully fitted up on latest service principles, each wagon to carry seven wounded—two in front seat, two inside