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hoping to wake and find that our servants and baggage had turned up. Two of my colleagues had fared worse than I that day. Colonel F. Rhodes, of the Zzmes, had been shot in the shoulder within the zereba early in the fight, and the Hon. Hubert Howard, of the Mew York Flerald, was killed almost under my eyes, in the paved courtyard of the Khalifa, opposite the Mahdi's tomb.

Such is the hasty record of as exciting and interesting a battle and a day's campaigning as it ever fell to mortal man to witness. Neither in my experience nor in my reading can I recall so strange and picturesque a series of incidents happening within the brief period of twelve hours.