After the Victory.

that beautiful country, intersected with numerous rivers flowing from the higher lands to the west.

To right and left of our road we could see at intervals high hills covered with magnificent tropical trees, and fertile plains watered by limpid streams.

The numerous objects met with on the road, such as scattered doora and broken pots, proved that the enemy must have passed in full flight and great disorder. We marched almost all night, and next morning entered the village of Yanga, mentioned before, which we found deserted. The rebels had fled so precipitously that at every step we stumbled over pieces of ivory ; the people had not had time to burn it, as they had at Lifi.

My men even found a quantity of elephant tusks buried in the ground and protected by the usual straw roofs. The corn had been either taken away or destroyed. Here I gave the troops a few hours' rest, and recommenced the march by the shortest route to Mount Serago. The next day we occupied the village at its foot, which also we found deserted, and then began to climb the rocky spurs of the mountain.

Only one path was practicable, and my men reached the summit without finding a trace of the enemy. Shortly afterwards, in a solitary hut, we found a sick woman suffering from the ferendid (guinea worm). She was the wife of one of the soldiers of the irregular Egyptian troops, who had been killed at Dem Idris when that village was attacked by Suleiman during the revolt.

The poor woman had been imprisoned in the village, and subjected to the most cruel treatment on the part of the rebel soldiers. From her we learned that Suleiman had passed that way three days ago. According to what she told us, he had intended to fortify Mount Serago, but not finding sufiicient grain to sufiice for a long siege, he had abandoned the idea and continued his retreat. The sick woman being a T