CONTENTS.

vn 153 136 138 140 146 15° Proposal to send Indian Troops to Suakim, 131 Advance of the Nile Column — Reaches Dulka Island — News of the Battle at Kirbekan and Death of General Earle — Heavy Losses — The Mahdi's Letter about the Fall of Khartum, ....

Collection of Supplies — A New-year's Dinner in a Hut, .....

General Earle arrives in the Camp — Preparations for an Advance, The Nile Column concentrated at Handab — The Supply of Food — Intelligence from Berber, Abu-Hamed, and Birti, The Column starts from Handab— The Fort at Kabenat — News about the Enemy, Proposed Seizure of Suleiman Wad Gamr — Colonel Butler enters Birti — Articles found belonging to Colonel Stewart, Difficulties of the Nile Passage — TheColumn reaches Birti — News from Lord Wolseley of the Fall of Khartum— A Halt called— Speculations as to the Future — Advance to Abu-Hamed ordered, . . . 152 The Camp on Dulka Island — Position of the Enemy at Kirbekan — The Enemy attacked— General Earle and Colonel Eyre killed — The Arabs routed — Our Losses, . 157 CHAPTER IX.

A Force to be sent to Suakim — Supplementary War Estimates, .... 168 Offers of Assistance from Canada and Australia— Enthusiasm in the Colonies, . 170 Sir Edward Strickland's Letter in the Sydney Meriting Herald — Mr. Dalley's Cablegram— Offers of large Subscriptions, . 173 Enrolment and Equipment of the Australian Force — Arrangements for its Despatch — Rate of Pay and Number of Men — Outfit and Uniform — Food Supplies, . . 1 77 Excitement in New South Wales — "Called to the Front!" — Loyalty to Britain, . 183 The Mustering at Sydney — Signs of Opposition— Great Patriotic Meeting — Chiefjustice Martin's Resolution carried, . 185 Sunday in Sydney before the Embarkation — The Muster of the Men — The March to the Quay — The Governor's Parting Address— On board the Iberia and Australasian— Telegram to the Queen, . .188 Telegram from Lord Derby to Sir W.

Robinson — Meeting at the War Office, . 194 A Force to be sent to Suakim against Osman Digma — General Sir Gerald Graham receives the Command — The Queen inspects the Grenadier Guards, . 195 General Buller retires from Gubat — General Brackenbury with the Nile Column is recalled — Colonel Talbot's March to Abu-Klea — He is attacked by the Arabs — Is reinforced by Col. S. Clarke — Arrives at Abu-Klea, and starts for Gakdul, . . 197 Death of General Sir H. Stewart — His Early History and Career as a Soldier, . 201 General Buller's Column at Abu-Klea — Tactics of the. Enemy — Their Treachery — The Force recalled to Gakdul, . . 204 A Visit to the Field of Abu-Klea, . . 206 The March to Gakdul — Harassed by the Enemy — Major Wardrop's ingenious Device— Arrival at Gakdul and at Korti, . 207 Fortunes of the Nile Column — Its Difficulties in the Shukook Pass — Arrives at Salamat, 20S Suleiman Wad Gamr's House searched and destroyed— Relics of Colonel Stewart, .211 General Brackenbury crosses the Nile — Reaches Hebbeh, where Colonel Stewart and his Party were murdered — A Visit to the wrecked Steamer — Relics of the murdered Men, 21 j A Despatch from Lord Wolseley recalls General Brackenbury — The Return Journey down the Nile— Farewell Parade of the River Column— General Brackenbury reaches Korti, . . . .216 Accounts by Natives of the fall of Khartum and Death of Gordon — The Greek's Story — Characteristic Description of the Massacre by two Refugees — .Miserable End of 1 ragh Pasha 219