The 9th Soudanese were marched up from Suakim, and they did the distance to the Nile (one hundred and twenty miles) in four days.

That was something like marching.
"Well, you saw Wady Halfa.

For a month, this place was quite as busy.
Now, its glories are gone.

Two or three huts for the railway men, and the shelters for a company of Egyptians, represent the whole camp." As they neared Ferket the officer said: "There was a sharp fight out there on the desert.

A large body of Dervishes advanced, from Ferket.