ARRIVAL OF BRITISH TROOPS. 1 97 from Abu Hamad; 60 were close to the Half-way Well at Murad; 40 were at El Bad; and 200 near Korosko. There were also 200 at Korosko, the headquarters of Majors Kitchener and Rundle, who had with them the three great sheikhs of the tribes in question. The remaining' Bedouins occupied posts between the Nile and the sea. On the other bank of the stream 500 Bedouins from the Tunisian tribe of the Gowast were to leave Assiout and to form posts in the oases of Khargeh and Selimah, under Major Stuart-YVortley.

It may be imagined that considerable excitement was caused among the natives at Assiout and other places by the arrival of the British troops. When the Royal Sussex regiment, for instance, took possession of their camp at Assouan on the 10th of July, and the soldiers marched in single file through the narrow bazaar, the people were amazed, and when the order was given to fix bayonets and trail arms, took to their heels and ran right and left in genuine alarm; but their fears soon subsided, and when the drums began to beat and the tremendous reverberation dislodged a number of dusty old jars, stuffed alligators, and other trash which had been stowed away in some of the top shelves of the shops and brought them toppling down, the applause and laughter became general. The natives were soon to become more familiar with British troops, for it was necessary to keep a watchful eye on Dongola, and therefore to strengthen the force at Wady Haifa.

Before the middle of August there was a general movement of regiments. Troops going from Simla to England on ordinary reliefs were ordered to Egypt, while others, including battalions of the Royal Irish and the East Surrey, were ordered to embark at Bombay for the Egyptian service. Several of the Turkish mutineers of Assiout were tried and sentenced to penal servitude and two of them to be shot, but the remnant of the battalion, 70 strong, commanded by their redoubtable colonel, went to Assouan by the postal steamer on the 13th of August. Tin-Egyptian camel corps (150 men and 75 camels), under Major Marriott, embarked for the same place, and the railway was in active operation, the management of the transport service haviiu r