About one thousand of the Dervishes were killed, including their chief Emir and some forty of the others, while five hundred were taken prisoners.

It was a great victory, and a very important one; but it can hardly be said that it was glorious, as we outnumbered them by three to one.

Still, it was a heavy blow to the Dervishes, and the fact that the Khalifa was obliged to send troops down to the Nile, to check an advance that had proved so formidable, must have greatly relieved the pressure on the Italians at Kassala.
"There was a pause, here.

It was certain that we should have to meet a much stronger force before we got to Dongola.

Well as the Egyptian troops had fought, it was thought advisable to give them a stronger backing.
"The heat was now tremendous, and cholera had broken out.