"Of course, I heard that we had beaten the Khalifa's men, and had taken Dongola, but the papers at Cairo gave no details.

The Staffordshire regiment went down, directly the place was taken, did they not ?" "Yes.

They had suffered heavily from cholera; and as there was now no fear that the Egyptians and Soudanese would prove unequal to withstanding a Dervish rush, there was no necessity for keeping them here." At Abu Fetmeh they left the train, and embarked in a steamer.

Of the party that had left Assouan, only four or five remained.

The rest had been dropped at other stations on the road.
The boat stopped but a few hours at Dongola, which had for a time been the headquarters of the advanced force.