58 KHARTOUM CAMPAIGN, Nile flood washed the decks of the steamers almost from stem to stern. It was little short of the rarest good fortune there was no accident by the way. Everybody turned out to see the brigades off. Merrily stepped the black battalions, their women-folk raising the usual shrill cry of jubilation, whilst the bands played the favourite air, ‘‘O, dem Golden Slippers.” Regimental Troops GoInG TO Wap Haresui.

bands do droll things occasionally. 1 remember in the year of the Dongola Campaign and the cholera visitation, 1896, a grim blunder made by a native battalion’s band. The serious surroundings of those days led me to say nothing of the matter at that time.

Military interments, in cholera cases, were ordinarily made very early in the morning or late in the afternoon, just before sunset. A popular native Egyptian officer fell a victim to the epidemic one afternoon. The sun