THE BATTLE OF OMDURMAN, 195 towards the central part of the squalid town. The houses, or more accurately huts, were full of dervishes, hundreds of whom were severely wounded. Women and children flocked into the streets, raising cries of welcome to us. Of all the vile, dirty places on earth, Ku atira’s Carrureb STANDARD (SIRDAR EXTREME LEFT), Omdurman must rank first. There was no effort at sanitary observances, and dead animals, camels, horses, donkeys, dogs, goats, sheep, cattle, in all stages of putrefaction, lay about the streets and lanes. ‘There were dead men, women, and children, too, lying in the open.

We passed the big rectangular stone wall enclosing