THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN to Kosha from Ferket, and on the following day they defeated the Dervishes both at Kosha and at Ginnis. The British battery shelled the village, the houses were rushed by the Cameron Highlanders and the Ninth Sudani Battalion, and the fire of the gunboat Lotus did great execution on those who attempted flight. After two hours' fight the Egyptians moved on and attacked Ginnis, which fell into their hands after another two hours' fight-. The Dervish loss was three hundred wounded, and five hundred killed, among the latter being the Amir Abd al-Magid and eighteen minor chiefs. The Khalifa was greatly disturbed at the result of this fight, for all his calculations were upset ; what his feelings were eleven years later, when his frontier army of three thousand men was wiped out, it is difficult to say. The village of Kosha has nothing of interest in it, but a considerable amount of trade was done there formerly. It was, and still is, the centre of the date trade of Sukkot, but it is uncertain how long it will remain so. After the railway was brought there on August 4th, 1896, the merchants were in the habit of sending their dates by it in sacks weighing about three hundredweight, but now that the rails from Kosha south have been taken up, and freight trains no longer run at regular intervals, the dates must be sent in to Haifa by camel, and the cost of camel transport is practically prohibitive. The Sirdar, Sir F. R.

Wingatc, has, however, built a rest-house at Kosha and established the head-quarters of an inspector there, and he will undoubtedly find some means of maintaining and increasing the trade of the district. In former days caravans for the Oasis of Selima started from a village on the west bank of the Nile, a little to the south of Kosha, and rock salt from that place was sold in the bazaar of Kosha.

After a delay of some two hours at Kosha our train resumed its journey, and set out at dawn to cross the desert between Kosha and Delligo, or Dulgo, a distance of about forty-four miles. The route was surveyed by British officers, and as this portion of the line was laid with new rails, travelling over it was easier and quicker than over the section to Kosha. "When for various reasons it was decided in 1904 to abolish the Halfa-Kermaline, these same rails were sufficiently good to take up, and to carry away vid 96