RELICS OF THE MURDERED MEN. 2 1 I occupation of Salamat, Suleiman Wad Gamr's house had been taken possession of and searched. Some significant relics were found there, including one of Colonel Stewart's visiting-cards stained with blood, extracts from M. Herbin's papers, and photographs of Herbin and of the Austrian consul, which had been presented by them to Mr. Power. Here as well as on Sherri Island numbers of papers were discovered, those at Salamat being in chests. These were all secured and carefully examined.

Suleiman Wad Gamr's house was a laree one standingf on an eminence with a colonnade supported by pillars, and with several courtyards, each with several rooms. It was entirely destroyed, the roofs being pulled down, and all wood useful for firewood being carried way. The walls were shaken by charges of guncotton, and then utterly destroyed by pick and shovel. Beams and solid wooden doors, rare articles in that country, were burned, and the house razed to the ground. All his sakyehs were also burned, and his palm-trees hewed down and destroyed with fire. Abu Bekr's property and that of his sister, Suleiman's aunt, were spared, but the house and property of Sheikh Oman, the man who had played false and escaped from the vakeel and rejoined Suleiman, were destroyed.

General Brackenbury writes : " These houses were of a higher class than any we had met with in the Shagiyeh or Monassir country. They had some attempt at ornament and stood in gardens. In Abu Bekr's garden there was an orange tree full of blossom, the only one we had seen since leaving Dongola."

On the 19th February the column continued the advance from Salamat to push on to Abu-Hamed: the cavalry and camel troop first with every transport camel fully loaded up with grain and provisions. By five o'clock in the evening a bivouac was made at Sulimanyeh, and about nine miles forward and two and a half miles below the wreck of Stewart's steamer. Colonel Buller, who in reconnoitring had arrived opposite the wreck, had heard two Arab scouts shout from the right bank of the river, and had seen them ride off on their camels to the north.

Bevond the site of the wreck an Arab, who had been taken