STORIES OF THE BATTLE—OMDURMAN,. 225, principal jail deliveries were by disease and the gallows ; the latter were almost daily in use. Three rough sets of them stood together near the great wall. Limbs of NEUFELD ON GuNBOAT “ SHEIK”—CUTTING OFF HIS ANKLE-IRONS.

trees stuck into the ground, with a cross-piece overhead, that was how the gallows were fashioned. A last victim of the Khalifa was cut down shortly after the troops entered Omdurman.

Neufeld was found under a mat-covered lean-to built against the mud-wall. There was no other protection P