CHAPTER X.

Tue BatTTLE oF OmMpuURMAN—FIrRST PHASE OF THE FIGHT.

In this and the succeeding chapter, the account given of the victory of Omdurman is substantially the same as that which appeared in the columns of various issues of the Dazly Telegraph. The narrative, although hastily prepared, gives an accurate description of the fight, and copies of it not being now procurable, | venture to make use of it, adding only here and there lines of new matter. I have reserved toa later chapter the personal narratives of officers who were in the action, and who have kindly supplied me with particulars of the part borne by the gunboats, the cavalry, and Major Stuart-Wortley’s friendlies. With these I have coupled various details drawn from my own observation.

I found that through errors in transmission of the messages, or mistakes in dealing with them, part of my copy had got credited to other sources.

OMDURMAN, 2nd September 1898. The supreme and greatest victory ever achieved by British arms in the Soudan has been won by the