CLOSE OF CAMPAIGN. 255 historic ground. An odour of blossom and fruit was wafted from the wild and spacious Mission and Government House gardens, which even the dervishes had not been able to wreck totally.

Two flagstaffs had been erected upon the top of the Distant View, Kiartoum (FROM BLUE NILE).

one-storied wall fronting the Blue Nile. The Sirdar ranged facing the building and the flagstaffs. Behind chim were the Headquarters Staff, the Generals of division, and others. To his left, formed up at right angles, were the representative detachments of the Egyptian army, the 11th Soudanese, with their red heckles in their fezzes, in the front line. Upon the Sirdar’s right: were the detachments of Gatacre’s