THE "COMMAND OF THE EXPEDITION. 2 19 from the whale-boats, it was calculated that all the mounted troops and guns would be able to leave Wady Haifa before the end of November. The variations in different years of the period at which the Nile attains its Greatest height and the differences in the time of its rise and subsidence at the various places included in the journey, added, of course, to the difficulty of making any accurate calculation, but preparations had been pushed on as rapidly as possible when the expedition was once determined on and the route decided, and vast quantities of stores, arms, and ammunition were accumulated before the last of the forces had arrived.

On the 1 2th of November the official statement of the command then in Egypt under General Officer Commandingin -chief Lord Wolseley was: — military secretary, Lieutenantcolonel Swaine; aides-de-camp, Major Wardrop, Major Creagh.

Lieutenant Childers, Lieutenant Adye, and Captain Lord C.

Beresford; chief of staff, Major-general Buller; aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Lord Fitzgerald; acting-adjutants and quartermastersgeneral, Golonel Furse and Colonel W. F. Butler; deputy-actingadjutant and quartermaster-general, Lieutenant-colonel Alleyne; brigadier-general, Major-general W. O. Lennox; aide-de-camp, Captain B. Holme; brigade-major, Lieutenant-colonel R. W. Gordon; brigadier-general, Major-general Davis; aide-de-camp, Lieutenant-colonel C. Douglas; brigade-major, Lieutenant-colonel T. B. Hitchcock; brigadier-general, Major-general Lyon-Fremantlc; aide-de-camp, Captain Hon. F. W. Stopford; brigade-major, Lieutenant-colonel W. F. Kelly. Cavalry, 19th Hussars. Artillery — B Brigade, C Battery; 2d Brigade, I Battery; 5th and 6th Batteries Scottish Division, 1st Battery Southern Division. 8th, nth, 17th, and 26th companies Royal Engineers. Detachment of Telegraph Battalion and Field Post. 9th and 1 ith companies of Commissariat.

C company Ordnance Store Corps. Infantry— 1st battalion Royal Scots, 1st battalion Royal Irish Regiment, 1st battalion Yorkshire Regiment. 2d battalion East Surrey, 2d battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 1st battalion Royal Sussex Regiment, 1st battalion South Staffordshire Regiment. 1st battalion Roval High-