68 then attacked by the right and left wings : for a brief space the fight waxed fast and furious, but, ere many minutes had elapsed, the enemy were dispersed in flight and fled away to the .rear. At that moment the Sultan, and those with him in the centre, attacked our vanguard and succeeded in penetrating our square. The king himself was in the thick of the fray, fighting like a lion, but it was not long before he fell dead, and with him his chief fighting men, including his children and the notables of the kingdom. Thus the battle ended in a great triumph for mc. I took the bodyof the Sultan and, wrapping it in the finest shroud, caused it to be buried in the Mosque of Manawashi with all due pomp, in honour of him and his heroes. I then interred his children and the notables who had been killed, and pardoned the captives, giving them freedom to go whithersoever they pleased. In this battle I gained eight pieces of cannon, twenty seven camel loads of ammunition, in addition to firearms and other spoil.

OCCUPATION OF EL FASHER.

After four days' rest in the country of jNIanavs ashi I entered K\ Fasher with all my troops on November the third, 1874 j"st before sunrise. Here 1 found that the children of the Sultan and the relations of those that had been left behind in El Fasher had all run away, only a few merchants and learned men remaining behind. To these I granted securit}-