THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN hands. Some 8,000 Dervishes, the remainder of Mahmud's force/ fled up the Atbara to Adarama, where one part of them set out for Gedilref, and the other for Abu Dulek. As they went several hundreds, who had been wounded but had managed to get away, sank from exhaustion and died, and many hundreds perished from hunger and thirst. The total Anglo-Egyptian loss was 568 killed and wounded. Mahmud himself was found hidden in a hut, and was brought before the Sirdar, whose questions he answered in a very insolent manner. He was subsequently made BRITISH CEMETERY ON" THE ATBARA IN I898.

to walk after the cavalry, with his hands tied behind his back, when the Sirdar made his triumphal entry into Berber.

In the course of the afternoon Captain Swabey told me that a steamer had returned unexpectedly from the south, and that they were going to send her up the river again as soon as possible to fetch wood, and he told me that if I cared to embark in her he would instruct the captain to let me land as near the Pyramids ' The above figures are Mr. Royle's, but according to the writer of " Sudan Campaign, 1896-1899," MahmOd's force consisted of 17,000 men. Of these, he says, 5,000 were killed, and 1,000 made prisoners, 4,000, or 5,000 perished from wounds and hunger during their flight, and the remainder were scattered.

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