THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN whose artillery did such excellent work at the Battle of the Atbara on April 8th, i8g8, and at the Battle of Omdurman on September 2nd of the same year.

Next came the Headquarters of the Intelligence Department. These practically consisted of two large, rectangular huts, or structures formed of a framework of branches of trees with sides and roofs made oi gerid and salattk, i.e., the leaves and sticks of palms. To such huts the word tukul is often applied, but it is HEADQUAKTEKS OK GEMEKAL SIR LESLIE RUNDLE AT SANAN ABO DdiM (mERAVVI) IN 1897.

said that, correctly speaking, a tukul is a round structure, with a roof in the shape of a bee-hive. Between these two huts ran a narrow, covered-in passage. One hut was occupied by Slatin Pasha, and the other by the chief of the Intelligence Department, Colonel F. R. Wingate. These huts formed one of the most interesting features of the camp ; for, at almost any hour of the day or night, he who was so fortunate as to be allowed to enter them would see these officers engaged in receiving the reports of men who had been to Omdurman, and spied on the 178