STORIES OF THE BATTLE—OMDURMAN. 219 Slatin Pasha, Colonel Maxwell, and ‘several soldiers, with one or two others, went in and searched for the Khalifa. A few minutes previously he had slipped out by a back door with the more important part of his personal treasures. His harem had been sent ——_ : — — Maup1’s Tomp—Errect oF LyppiTz SHELLs.

away earlier in the day. Mr Hubert Howard, correspondent of the New York Herald and the London Times, was near the headquarters staff. He came over to where I was and chatted. To acompanion who had joined me he offered some cigarettes. He said it had been a splendid day, and he had seen much. Nothing could have been better than the way things turned out,