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well as a sanitary gain. Some there were who, averse to over-cleanliness, simply tore the dervish patches off their dress, thus also resuming their fealty to the Khedive.

The roll of prisoners, however, in spite of convenient blindness in letting all the lesser men who wished to escape do so, swelled to about 11,000. Ina house to house visitation the more important rebel sheikhs and Baggara in hiding were caught and kept under arrest with their followers. All the Greeks and the local chiefs whom Slatin Pasha knew to be secretly inimical to the dervish rule, were from the first secured safe permits and absolute liberty. Among them were many of the Mahdi’s relatives, former rulers of tribes, and Emirs © once high in power. Of wounded dervishes over go0o were treated by the British and Egyptian Army Medical Staffs, although the doctors’ hands were busy enough for two days with our own sick and wounded.

Within twenty-four hours after the Sirdar's entry Qmdurman began to assume the signs of orderly government. Thousands of the prisoners as well as the natives were set to work to clean up the place.

The wounded were all carried into temporary hospitals and the dead were decently interred in Moslem burialplaces out upon the desert. Then the thoroughfares were scrupulously scavengered by gangs of yesterday's furious foemen, blacks and Baggara. The dead things were put under ground, and the stagnant pools were drained or filled in. Within a week it became actually possible to walk without an attack of violent nausea in Omdurman. Visits were constantly paid to the battlefield for the double purpose of rescuing any wounded