348 WITH KITCHENEE IN' THE SOUDAN river to the island and placed so as to command the west bank, which they soon cleared of the riflemen. Over five | hundred Arabs lay dead on the two islands. Two thousand one hundred and seventy-five fighting men surrendered, and several hundred women and children. Fadil, with the force | that had escaped, crossed the desert to Kung, on the White f Nile, where on the 22nd of January they surrendered to the | English gun-boats, their leader, with ten or twelve of his followers only, escaping to join the Khalifa. Our casualties i were heavy. Twenty-five non-commissioned officers and men i were killed, one British officer, six native officers, and one hundred and seventeen non-commissioned officers and men | wounded of the 10th Soudanese, out of a total strength of five hundred and eleven. The remaining casualties were I among the irregulars. | Never was there a better proof of the gallantry of the black regiments of Egypt, for, including the commander and medi-; cal officer, there were but five British officers and two British ! sergeants to direct and lead them.

After the battle of Bosaires there was a lull in the fighting on the east of the White Nile. The whole country had been i cleared of the Dervishes, and it was now time for the Sirdar, who had just returned from England, to turn his attention to the Khalifa. The latter was known to be near El Obeid, where he had now collected a force of whose strength very different reports were received. Gregory, whose exertions in the fight and the march through the scrub from Karkoj had brought on a slight return of fever, went down in the gun-boat with the wounded to Omdurman.

Zaki was with him, but as a patient; he had been hit through the leg while charging forward with the Soudanese. At Omdurman Gregory fell into regular work again. So I many of the officers of the Egyptian battalions had fallen in j battle, or were down with fever, that Colonel Wingate took him as his assistant, and his time was now spent in listening ; to the stories of tribesmen, who, as soon as the Khalifa’s force i