CHAPTER VI

AFTER THE BATTLE

On the morning of 3rd September our troops moved out of Omdurman and

encamped on the banks of the river some two miles to the north. The

moment I had finished breakfast I made for the Mahdi's tomb. The

interior was an absolute wreck. Vast quantities of stones and mortar,

torn away by the Lyddite shells, were heaped upon the floor, and of

the superstructure over the Mahdi's grave only the wooden framework

remained. Some pieces of tawdry drapery which had covered the tomb

lay on the ground, and these I brought away. Outside the tomb, a

little to the right, I came across a truly awful spectacle. One of

the terrible Lyddite shells had burst amongst some unfortunate Arabs

near the Khalifa's palace. Eight men lay dead in a ghastly ring, some

of them torn by horrid mutilations; but the curious point about some

of the bodies was that they were not lying flat, but were sitting on

the ground with fearfully contorted limbs and features. Could this be

due to the deadly fumes of the picric acid contained in the Lyddite?

The stonework of the tomb and the surrounding buildings was often

stained yellow by this chemical. Outside in the open street fragments

of Koran manuscripts were lying about in every direction.

I then set out to find Cross and the other correspondents. It was

said that they were with the Staff, in strange and unwonted proximity

to the Sirdar's tent. However, as nobody seemed to know where the

Staff was, I wandered about for hours seeking my colleagues in vain.

As I passed along the river a barge drew up alongside to land the

bodies of the British soldiers who had been killed. From some

misunderstanding a wounded man slid out of the boat amongst the

corpses, and began to walk up the bank, but was promptly sent

back with the reprimand--"D----n you, what do you mean by coming

ashore with this lot? You aren't dead!" Even amid such gruesome

surroundings it was quite funny to see the disappointed look of the

man as he returned to the barge to take his place under a separate

category.

At last I came by accident upon Cross. The poor fellow was again

in a state of prostration, and was lying under the blanket-tent of

Captain Luther, R.A.M.C., in the camp of the Lancashire Fusiliers.

The officers of this battalion had been most kind to Cross, and as

the day was terribly hot he remained under the shelter of their

tents until the evening, when he rejoined me in our own camp. He

told me that on the previous night he had, like the rest of the

correspondents, failed to get any food, and had slept on the sand

without a blanket, though Steevens, with his usual kindness, had lent

him an overcoat when the night air became chilly.

At length, after wandering up and down for miles in the blazing heat,

I discovered the whereabouts of our camp out in the desert to the

south-west of the town. All my colleagues were here except Villiers.

Nobody seemed to know what had become him, and as the hours passed

and he failed to turn up we began to get alarmed. His servant had

pitched Villiers' umbrella tent, and beside it stood the bicycle,

which was disfigured by an honourable scar, for the top of the valve

was gone, and Hassan declared that it had been carried away by a

Dervish bullet. I mounted the famous machine, intending to go for

a ride to the execution ground, where several fine gibbets were

standing, but as the back wheel was "buckled" I soon dismounted--with

the proud consciousness, however, of being the first cyclist in

Omdurman!

The streets of the town were perfectly loathsome. In every direction

lay the decaying bodies of dead animals, and the stench was terrible.

Moslems, from a curious intermixture of humanity and cruelty, never

give a dying animal a _coup de grâce_, and they seldom take the

trouble to bury the carcass. Moreover, in some parts of the town one

could scarcely walk fifty yards without coming across the bodies of

men, and occasionally, I am sorry to say, those of women and little

children. At least five hundred dead people lay scattered about the

streets, some destroyed by Lyddite shells, but the majority pierced

with bullets. I saw some of these corpses lying in the shallow water

near the bank of the river, and as it seemed to be nobody's business

to bury them, it is not surprising that our Guardsmen and other

soldiers contracted the germs of enteric fever at Omdurman!

Inside the Khalifa's arsenal there were many curious things--spears,

bows and arrows, coats of chain mail, machine guns, Krupps, various

kinds of ammunition, and other warlike apparatus, ancient and modern.

Three carriages of European make were also visible, which were said

to have been used by the Khalifa on state occasions, though these

vehicles could never have got beyond the main streets, for the simple

reason that outside the town no roads exist.

Most of the Dervish ammunition used in the battle seems to have been

of home manufacture. All the Martini cartridges I picked up amongst

their dead were extremely well made of "solid drawn" brass, and

stamped with a Κ and a Π. I imagine that these letters may stand

for Khartum and Pentekachi, the unfortunate Greek who succeeded in

manufacturing gunpowder for the Mahdi, and was finally blown to

atoms by an explosion of the magazine. On a Martini rifle which I

secured from the battlefield, the Enfield stamp is still visible.

Some disgraceful facts were revealed at the time when Berber was

occupied, and the public documents fell into our hands, for, in

addition to various offers of assistance addressed to the Khalifa

from people in high positions at Cairo, some invoices were discovered

which showed clearly that a certain Manchester firm had supplied the

Khalifa with lead for the manufacture of bullets! It is difficult

to believe that an Englishman could sink so low as to supply his

country's enemy with munitions of war for the sake of filthy lucre!

A new bullet, by the way, was used in the recent campaign. Its title

is sufficiently significant. It is called the "man-stopping bullet,"

and simply means that an ordinary .303 Lee-Metford bullet is scooped

out at the end to the depth of about half an inch. When this missile

strikes an object the hollow nose instantly expands like an umbrella,

inflicting a tremendous shock, which was frequently not secured when

the ordinary solid bullet, with its enormous velocity (two thousand

feet a second at the muzzle), passed clean through an enemy's body,

but failed to administer a sufficiently crushing blow. At Krugersdorp

an ordinary Lee-Metford bullet was driven right through the brain

of a Boer; and so far was the tiny puncture from being immediately

fatal, that the Dutchman walked to church next Sunday--though it is

true that on the Sunday following he went there again in a coffin. Of

course this solid bullet, when it chanced to come in contact with a

bone, served its purpose well, and shattered the bone to atoms. The

first occasion, I believe, on which the Lee-Metford bullet was fired

into a human body was at the well-known Featherstone riots; and I

remember seeing a drawing made by a medical man at the time of the

foot of one of the rioters, which had been struck. Not only was the

lower part of the leg bone completely smashed, but almost every bone

in the foot had been broken more or less by the terrific force of the

bullet.

_À propos_ of dum-dum bullets, man-stopping bullets, _et hoc genus

omne_, a good deal of false sentiment has been evoked in England

and France. The main object of a soldier in battle is to put his

opponent out of action, and it is found by experience that the

ordinary bullet does not adequately secure this result when employed

against barbarous or semi-barbarous enemies. A civilised combatant,

when he is struck by a bullet--even if the wound be a comparatively

slight one, say through the shoulder--almost invariably sits down

on the ground; but the nervous system of the savage is a far less

delicate organism, and nothing short of a crushing blow will check

his wild onset. Even in the Martini-Henry days scores of Dervishes

rushed upon the British troops at Abu Klea and elsewhere, with the

blood spurting from seven or eight bullet wounds, and then cut and

thrust with deadly effect until loss of blood told, and they fell

dead in or about the square. One of the two British officers who

lost their lives at the Atbara fight was killed by a large elephant

bullet, the hollow base of which had been filled with a fulminate.

This was an _explosive_ bullet, quite a distinct species from the

missile described above.

The fire from our zeriba, which mowed the Dervishes down in rows and

heaps, must have been simply appalling. The ordinary metaphors of

"rain" and "hail" are scarcely adequate to describe the awful effect

of modern rifles and machine guns when their fire is steady and

concentrated. It is rather a wall of lead than a rain, which, as it

advances, sweeps everything instantly from its track. There must be

a limit to human endurance, one would think, even in the excitement

of battle, and the time may well come when human art will prove

superior to human courage and discipline, and civilised troops will

refuse to expose themselves to what may have become practically the

certainty of death or wounds, or, at anyrate, of enormous risk. The

educational and social forces at work in modern life certainly do not

tend to foster the old-fashioned virtue of unquestioning obedience,

or the consolations to be derived from religious faith. Yet it is

precisely these two things which alone have often enabled a leader to

count with confidence upon a response to his call when he summons his

followers to almost certain destruction--the surrender of life and

all that life holds dear.

On 4th September, at 9.15 a.m., four gunboats conveyed the Sirdar

and various detachments of troops, with most of the correspondents,

across the Nile to Khartum. We moved alongside the quay in front

of the ruins of Gordon's palace, and the troops formed a rough

semicircle, with the Sirdar, his Staff, and the two foreign

_Attachés_ inside. Four chaplains took their stand with their faces

to the river, ready to conduct a memorial service. At ten o'clock the

Union Jack was run up from one of the flagstaffs which surmounted

the ruined façade of the palace, and almost immediately afterwards

the Crescent flag of Egypt was unfurled. The gunboat _Melik_ fired

twenty-one guns, but as no blank ammunition was forthcoming,

twenty-one shells were sent screaming up the Nile--a most unique and

realistic form of salute! After this hearty cheers were given for Her

Gracious Majesty the Queen and His Highness the Khedive. Then came a

brief and simple service to the memory of the brave man who, thirteen

long years ago, had so often stood on the very terrace which lay in

ruins before us, and, hoping against hope, looked northwards over the

desert--but in vain--for any sign of help from England! The air of

Gordon's favourite hymn was played, and as its cadence fell upon the

ears, one's thoughts recalled the words of the exquisite verses--

"I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless,

Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness.

* * * * *

When other helpers fail, and comforts flee,

Help of the helpless, oh abide with me!"

How truly must the spirit of these lines have been felt by Gordon,

that noble and sincere Christian, deserted by man, yet doubtless

sustained by the abiding presence of his Master in life and death.

During our brief stay at Omdurman every variety of loot was hawked

about the camp for sale. Huge shields of hippopotamus hide, spears,

swords, old rifles, Mahdist coins, and other trophies of battle or

pillage, found ready purchasers. A negro paid me a visit who was

clad in chain mail, cut rather after the fashion of a dress coat.

There was, indeed, quite a flavour of the Margate sands about the

appearance of this Ethiopian, with his striped cotton trousers and

his metallic coat, the tails of which, like those of Burnand's hero,

"positively swept the ground." These suits of mail were beautifully

made of steel rings, and could be purchased for about twenty-five

shillings each; but they were very heavy and awkward things to carry

about. Everybody brought back a Dervish sword or two, which were

often very interesting. Some blades had the famous Ferrara stamp,

others were marked by the mail-clad figure which is said to belong

to the period of the Crusades, from which, at anyrate, the general

pattern of Dervish swords--a straight blade with a plain cross

hilt--seems to date. The pretty _gibbehs_, too, were brought home in

large numbers; there were nearly eleven thousand of them available

for selection on the sandy plain three miles away! The history of

the Dervish _gibbeh_ is rather a quaint one. The original garment

was, of course, the plain white cotton coat of the Arab; but the

Mahdi, who was somewhat ascetic--in theory, at anyrate, if not in

practice--ordered his followers to sew black patches upon their nice

white coats, as tokens of humility. But alas for human frailty, what

was intended to curb the spiritual pride of the faithful became a

direct incentive to the vainglorious adornment of their persons!

The ladies of Omdurman were strongly opposed to the dowdiness of

the black patches upon their husbands and lovers, and, under the

influence of the more æsthetic circles of Dervish society, the white

_gibbehs_ were gradually tricked out with gaudy squares of blue, red,

and purple.

Many of the dead bodies in the field had rosaries round their necks,

usually made of box or sandal wood. Nobody paid much attention to

these ornaments, but from one point of view they are interesting. Was

the use of a row of beads for religious purposes borrowed from the

Christians by the Moslems, or _vice versâ_? Another curious relic was

an insulator from a Dervish field telegraph, which had been worked

between a point near Gebel Surgham and Omdurman during the battle.

Many of the dead Emirs wore watches, one of which was marked "Dent,

London."

Our soldiers seemed to thoroughly enjoy the rest at Omdurman. They

had probably some very quaint ideas of our geographical surroundings

and the reason for our presence in the Sudan. On 4th September some

companies of Sudanese who had been sent up the river in pursuit of

the Khalifa were seen returning in the distance with a long string

of Dervish prisoners. There was great excitement amongst the British

troops; whole battalions ran wildly over the sand expecting to catch

a glimpse of the Dervish leader, and I heard one Tommy Atkins say to

his comrade, "'Urry up, Bill, come along; they've cotched the bloody

Khee-dive!"

In addition to Dervish prisoners who were captured by the active

Sudanese, hundreds came in voluntarily and surrendered themselves.

Many were wounded more or less seriously, but of the rest a large

number were enrolled as soldiers of the Khedive! What amazing

versatility! On one day the Dervish rushes boldly against our shells

and bullets, and on the next he joins us as a comrade in arms!

Some of the French papers declared ungenerously that the Sirdar

had armed these Dervish allies in order to dispatch them against

Major Marchand. Such an act would under the circumstances have been

legitimate, and had these newly enrolled soldiers of the Khedive

been given a free hand, "the evacuation of Fashoda" would have been

ancient history by this time! But of course no such intention ever

entered the Sirdar's head. The brave Marchand certainly deserved a

better fate than to be wiped out by ex-Dervishes.

The prisoners were released from their fetters on the night of

the battle. Amongst them were a number of jet black Abyssinians,

survivors of the sanguinary battle of Galabat. I saw Charles Neufeld,

and he looked very little the worse for his stay at Omdurman. A

great deal of English sympathy has been wasted on this person. The

harrowing stories we have read in the papers of the poor captive

languishing in hopeless captivity are sheer nonsense. On two separate

occasions Neufeld had the chance of escape, for a clever and

courageous Arab called Oman had been dispatched by the Intelligence

Department to rescue the captive. Neufeld, however, refused to leave

Omdurman unless he was accompanied by a black woman, with whom he

lived. This was obviously out of the question. So Father Rossignoli

was rescued instead, and brought safely to Assouan.

An infinitely more pathetic case was that of the two Austrian

Sisters who had been compelled to marry Greeks. One of these, who

was childless, returned to Cairo; but the other, who had borne her

husband three children, elected--so I heard--to remain for good

at Omdurman. The poor woman felt that she could never face her

co-religionists at home after her vows of celibacy had been broken. I

remember as I walked along the bazaar on the morning after the fight

I noticed a European woman in Arab dress standing amongst a crowd

of natives. She looked wistfully and sadly at the British as they

passed, and I always regret that I did not speak to her.

Slatin Pasha soon returned from his pursuit of the Khalifa. The

Egyptian cavalry had followed the tracks of the fugitive for thirty

miles up the river, but as the horses were dead beat and no forage

could be landed from the gunboat accompanying the pursuit, owing to a

long stretch of marshy ground, the squadrons were compelled to return

without the Khalifa. I happened to be strolling past Slatin's tent at

the time, and he called me in and told me how terribly disappointed

he was at the failure of the pursuit. He was kept very busy all the

time we were at Omdurman by continual visits from many old Dervish

friends and acquaintances. One day when I was with him a handsome old

Arab with a white beard came into the tent, and sinking down without

a word, bent his head over Slatin's shoulder and wept. At length

he found words to tell us that his only son had been killed in the

fighting. "Oh, Hassan," said Slatin, and could get no further--his

kind heart was too full of pity; and as he placed his hand on to his

old friend's shoulder and tried to soothe his sorrow, I turned away,

unable to bear the sight of the father's grief.

As Cross grew no better, and there was little else to do in Omdurman,

I asked Colonel Wingate to allow us a passage on the first gunboat

leaving for the North. Accordingly, on the morning of the 6th, Cross,

René Bull, and myself embarked on the _Metemmeh_, and steamed away

down the river. Nobody was sorry to say good-bye to the repulsive

streets of Omdurman.

Two barges packed with the rank and file of the Warwicks were lashed

to either side of the _Metemmeh_, which carried on board Colonel

Forbes and the officers of the battalion, together with Lieutenant

Clerk of the 21st Lancers. We were all in excellent spirits, and

fully expected to reach the Atbara in about thirty hours. As steam

and current bore us rapidly past the battlefield in the twilight, the

vultures circling over the distant plain and the broken zeriba by the

river's bank were the only visible signs which remained to tell of

our momentous victory.

We were not destined to reach the Atbara in thirty hours! The sun had

set, and the _reis_ had been advised to tie up to the banks for the

night; but the obstinate fellow denied the necessity of any stoppage

for another hour or two, so we went tearing down the stream at a

tremendous pace. Dinner was just over--a curious meal, supported

almost entirely by voluntary contributions of tinned meats, rice,

jams, etc.--when, without a moment's warning, a tremendous shock sent

everything and everybody sprawling over the deck. Loud cries of "We

are going over" came from the river, and through the semi-darkness

one could see that the troop barge had been wrenched from its

lashings by the shock, and was heeling over in a terrible manner.

Everybody on board the gunboat shouted "Sit down," "Keep still"; and

it was very fine to see how the soldiers immediately obeyed their

officers, though for the moment they fully expected to be capsized

into the flooded stream. By good luck the detached barge righted

itself and remained fixed in midstream, about thirty yards from the

gunboat and the other barge.

Nobody quite knew where we were or what had happened, but as it

seemed certain that we were not likely to go much further that night,

we all made preparations for going to sleep. The upper deck was

quite a small affair, and the space at our disposal was curtailed

by the presence of a large table and a number of camp chairs. Over

these few square yards of deck we had to dispose the recumbent forms

of some twenty-six human beings. The result was a sort of Chinese

puzzle. I had always heard that Nature, when she had any close

packing to do, employed the beautiful simplicity of the hexagon, and

suggested a trial of this system; but the theory, owing, probably, to

dissimilarities in our lengths and breadths, would not work at all.

We lay in wild disorder, but so tightly wedged together that it was

impossible to move about when one had finally secured one's berth in

this casual ward! A friend's boots gently reposed upon my pillow all

night, while my own feet were thrust against the ribs of a transverse

form below.

When the sun rose next morning we saw that the incompetent _reis_ had

run us right on to a sandy island which is submerged when the Nile

is in full flood. The whole of that day was spent in endeavouring to

drag the gunboat and the barges off the sandbank. The _Nasr_, under

the command of Lieutenant Hon. H. L. A. Hood, happened to come along,

and did her best to help us, but the only hawser available snapped

like a thread from the strain put upon it, and the _Nasr_ departed.

The troops were then ordered to get into the shallows and try to push

the barges off. What had been foreseen by several of us happened!

The soldiers managed to shove one of the barges into deep water,

and then several of them, unable to check their movements, found

themselves out of their depths in the strong current. One poor fellow

was drowned under our eyes, and two others were just rescued in a

state of utter exhaustion by natives with life-belts. The whole thing

was a complete muddle, and we all felt angry at the incompetence and

obstinacy which had brought about the needless loss of life.

Another night was spent on this depressing sandbank, and at dinner

we became aware that something dreadful had attached itself to the

vessel. We looked over the side, and from the space between the

gunboat and the left-hand barge emerged the body of an Egyptian

cavalry man. The corpse bobbed up and down on the swirling waters in

a horribly grotesque fashion. Its spurs had caught the woodwork of

the barge for a few moments and delayed its rapid passage down the

Nile. I remember we remarked, "Oh, it's only a dead Gyppy," and then

went back to our dinner.

Next day we made a desperate effort to get afloat, and finally

succeeded. Instead, however, of being the first to reach Atbara Camp,

and to secure the earliest train service to Wady Halfa, we had had

the mortification of seeing the Seaforth Highlanders pass us the day

before.

At Nasri Island I landed to get the tent and other baggage which we

had left behind us on leaving Wad Hamed, but was informed that the

five _ghyassas_ containing officers' luggage--and our own unfortunate

belongings amongst it--had capsized two days before. My precious

tent, two Gladstone bags, and a case of stores lay fathoms deep in

the Nile, and all the consolation I had was to draw up a pathetic

claim for compensation from the impecunious Egyptian War Office.

By the time we arrived at the Atbara, Cross's illness had increased,

and his temperature had gone up to 100°. The army surgeon on board

the _Metemmeh_ advised him to stay in hospital at the Atbara for a

few days before proceeding to Cairo, and the officer in charge of

the hospital gave the same advice. I had already heard from another

medical man that he did not detect any traces of typhoid symptoms in

Cross; so one thought that he was merely suffering from the common

feverishness which comes from a "touch of the sun," and passes off

after a few days. I remained at the Atbara for a night, and then went

on with the Warwicks to Wady Halfa, leaving a servant with Cross,

who had arranged to follow by the next train in two days' time.

The remainder of our homeward journey was comparatively uneventful.

The bad luck, however, which seemed to follow the Warwicks delayed us

for twenty-four hours on our journey to Wady Halfa, for the wretched

engines which dragged our cattle pens (first class) and baggage

trucks (third class) repeatedly broke down from overheating and lack

of grease.

During a short wait at Shellal my servant called my attention to

a woman on the bank, who was apparently in great distress, and

told me that she was weeping because she had been divorced by her

husband. Such cases are often very cruel, for Mohammedan law allows

a husband to write his wife a bill of divorcement without pretext of

any sort. At the same time, he is bound to maintain her for three

months, and her dowry is restored. Many good Moslems deplore the

obsolete character of their divorce laws, which have outlived their

usefulness. Still, it must not be forgotten that in one respect

Moslem wives have for centuries enjoyed a privilege which was not

possessed by Englishwomen until a recent date, namely, the absolute

control of their own money and property. Female education, too, which

is increasing rapidly in the towns, and later on will spread to the

country districts, will doubtless serve to improve the status and

welfare of native women. Monogamy is already almost universal with

the fellahin, and is steadily gaining ground amongst the educated

classes. A good deal of false sentiment is often expended by good

people in England over the lot of their Mohammedan sisters, but they

may rest assured that women all the world over have the amelioration

of their condition very largely in their own hands. Further, a very

slight acquaintance at first hand with Oriental countries will show

one that Moslem home life is full of happiness, and that nowhere in

the world is greater devotion lavished by parents upon their children.

At Luxor the blessings of civilisation met us again, in the shape of

a nice breakfast at the hotel and a big bath. Most of us had slept

more or less in our ordinary clothes for several weeks, and everyone,

from the Colonel downwards, wallowed joyfully in an unlimited supply

of warm water. As we sat at breakfast, someone told me that a camel

had died just near the hotel from the bite of an asp. The snake, a

little creature some eight inches long, was lying under the sand,

according to its wont, with its head just above the ground. The poor

camel trod on it, and was bitten in the foot. It speedily died,

swollen to nearly double its ordinary size, and the natives lit a

fire over its carcass. The Arabs dread the little asp terribly,

and its bite is nearly always fatal. A special antitoxin has been

prepared by the _Institut Pasteur_ from the serum of horses bitten by

poisonous snakes. A subcutaneous injection of ten cubic centimetres

of this fluid is alleged to be a sure specific against the bite of

any known species of venomous land-snake. But this preparation is

practically useless in the Sudan, as it loses its efficacy if much

exposed to light or to a high degree of heat. Nor has it, so far as I

know, ever yet been tried in the case of any human being bitten by a

deadly snake. I took some with me last year when exploring in Sokotra

with the late Mr. Theodore Bent, but despite the glowing accounts

of the efficacy of _dowa Inglizi_ and offers of large bakshish,

the faith of the natives was never robust enough to allow them to

voluntarily submit to a snake bite for experimental purposes.

On the final stage of our railway journey from Luxor to Cairo,

Lieutenant Clerk and I shared a carriage between us, and were

extremely comfortable. Ali redoubled his efforts in the cooking line,

and for our final meal in the train, to which we invited a military

chaplain, the Rev. E. H. Pulling, we used up all our remaining tins,

and dined off _pâté de foie gras_, a curried blend of prawns and

chicken, and stewed apricots--a good instance of what a clever Arab

servant can turn out with a spirit-lamp and a couple of tin saucepans

in a crowded third-class carriage.

After waiting four days in Cairo, and receiving a telegram from

the Atbara which gave me no cause for the least apprehension about

Cross's condition, I left Alexandra on the 17th of September

for Marseilles. On board I renewed my acquaintance with Major

Stuart-Wortley, and amongst the other passengers were Prince Francis

of Teck and Prince Christian Victor. Prince Francis had been very

ill throughout the latter part of the campaign, but during the fight

had risen from his bed, in spite of medical advice, and worked a

Maxim gun with good effect.

We left Marseilles by the morning _rapide_ on the 21st, and as we

were crossing the Channel on the 22nd, Prince Christian handed me the

_Morning Post_, and pointed to a paragraph which announced the death

of Cross from enteric fever on the 20th.

The news took away for the time being all the joy of one's return.

Twice I have been fated to lose my travelling companion by death

when the work was finished which we set ourselves to do. Cross was

an old Hertford man, who had rowed five in the 'Varsity boat of

1889, and had afterwards been appointed to an assistant mastership

at Bedford. He had always been very loyal to his old college, and

our successes on the river were largely due to his "coaching." We

shall all--seniors and juniors alike--miss him greatly. In spite

of constant attacks of illness from exposure to the sun, each of

which left him weaker than before, Cross had refused to return

from the front, and, as I said above, had actually dragged himself

out of hospital in order to be present at the battle. But while

his natural vivacity and vigour were to some extent impaired by

physical debility, he was always unselfish in the "give and take"

of camp life, and bore uncomplainingly the many discomforts which

are necessarily experienced by the sick during the advance of an

army. Still side by side with his courageous endurance of physical

suffering, and the coolness which he showed when under fire for the

first time, the central thought which occupied Cross's mind was that

of returning to his beloved work at Bedford.

"His was a soul whose master-bias leans

To homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes--

More brave for this, that he had much to love!"

The Sudan campaign, which, thanks to the Sirdar's wonderful genius

for organisation, has been so thoroughly successful, cannot be

regarded as in any sense final. Unless our recovery of the Nile

banks as far as Omdurman is followed by the possession of the

Bahr-el-Ghazal, we may almost be said to have laboured in vain. If we

stayed our hand at Khartum, or even Fashoda, the same remark which

Lord Salisbury passed on the French possessions in the Sahara,

that "the soil was rather light," would apply equally well to our

arid conquests in the Sudan. The so-called French occupation of the

Bahr-el-Ghazal must not be allowed to count for anything. Their utter

failure as colonisers in French Congo, Senegal, and even Algeria,

and the selfish tariffs with which they seek to exclude foreign

industry from the regions which they reserve for Frenchmen who

never come--these things deprive them of any moral claim to further

annexations of vast territories in the interior of Africa. Moreover,

the Bahr-el-Ghazal was indubitably a province of Egypt before the

Mahdi's revolt, and must be restored to the Khedive intact. Under

British control this fertile province will be able to develop its

splendid resources. Coffee grows wild, timber abounds, and thousands

of square miles are ready for the cultivation of corn, two crops of

which can be grown in a single year. In ancient days Egypt was the

granary of Europe. Rome and Byzantium were dependent almost entirely

upon the Alexandrian corn-ships. In fact, one of the most serious

accusations which could be brought against a citizen was that he

was carrying on intrigues for the stoppage of these vessels. This

actual charge was levied against the great Athanasius himself, and

the philosopher Sopater, who was accused of delaying the corn supply

by magical rites, was promptly decapitated by Constantine "because he

was too clever" (δι' ὑπερβολὴν σοφίας). There is no reason why the

Bahr-el-Ghazal, when connected by river and rail with the sea, should

not take its place as one of the great corn-growing countries of the

world. Again, an exploration of the Nuba region to the north of the

province may lead to the discovery of mineral wealth. At anyrate,

during an earlier campaign, a Dervish caravan was captured by the

forces under Sir Francis Grenfell, and amongst the merchandise was

found a large quantity of gold which had been dug out of the Nuba

Hills.

But even when the possession and organisation of the Bahr-el-Ghazal

has become an accomplished fact, we find ourselves barred by a belt

of territory some two hundred miles across, from Uganda to the north

of Lake Tanganyika. Despite the vital importance of securing a

road between Uganda and Nyassaland, Lord Salisbury allowed Germany

to make the western frontier of its East African possessions

conterminous with that of the Congo State, and thus completely bar

our advance from north or south. But in this case what was lost by

the weakness of one Government may be recovered by the firmness of

another; and if this result be happily secured, the territories

regained to civilisation by Lord Kitchener's genius will be united to

our vast possessions in the South, and Mr. Cecil Rhodes' magnificent

idea of a British Empire in Africa, stretching from Cairo to the

Cape, will at length be realised in actual fact.

A BRIEF NOTE ON A FEW ENTOMOLOGICAL SPECIMENS BROUGHT FROM THE SUDAN,

22ND SEPTEMBER 1898.

I have handed over my small collection of insects to Professor

Poulton, F.R.S., of Oxford, who has had them set, and has kindly

supplied me with materials for the following list, which may possibly

be of some interest to any reader interested in Entomology.

BUTTERFLIES.

Three specimens of _Limnas Chrysippus_, a Danaine butterfly,

found over all the warmer parts of the Old World. Of these three

butterflies, one is the brown type form (Wad Hamed); one the Alcippus

or Alcippoides variety, with white hind wings (Wad Hamed); one an

Alcippoides, with much less white (near Kerreri).

Three specimens of _Belenois mesentina_. Two males (Zeidab and Wad

Hamed) are typical. The female (near Pyramids of Meroe) is darker

than usual. The specimen in the Hope Collection nearest to it comes

from Somaliland.

One _Teracolus_. Very like _T. auxo_. The specimen is a male, small

and white, with orange tip to the fore wing (near Pyramids of Meroe).

Three very small species of _Lycænidæ_. Two males and two females

(two, Kerreri; two, Rojan Island).

MOTHS.

_Noctuæ._--One _Grammodes stolida_ (Battlefield of Omdurman), exactly

like the Hope Specimens from India.

One dubious specimen, probably a species of _Pandesema_ (on gunboat

near Shabluka).

_Bombycidæ._--One small female moth (Luxor), somewhat resembling

_Trichiura cratægi_.

_Tineina._--Three small pale specimens (two, on gunboats near

Metemmeh; one, Wad Hamed).

NEUROPTERA.

_Trichoptera._--A few species, very pale in colour (Luxor and Abu

Ahmed).

COLEOPTERA.

One Cicindela. A very small and pale species, not represented in the

Hope Collection (Wad Hamed).

One Buprestid, namely, _Sternocera irregularis_. A large brown

species, with irregular tufts of straw-coloured hair on elytra and

thorax (Um Teref).

One Longicorn. A large black shining _Prionus_, not represented in

Hope Collection.

Heteromera. Two species, as yet uncompared with Hope Collection.

Two Lamellicorns, apparently _melolontha_, or very similar.

HEMIPTERA.

One immature form of a large species, pale in colour.

HOMOPTERA.

Fulgoridæ. One small pale species.

ORTHOPTERA.

Gryllidæ. Two pale species.

Acridiidæ. Two pale species.

HYMENOPTERA.

One winged ant--dark, with sand-coloured patches.

ARACHNIDA--ARANEINA.

Six species of spiders. One of these is a beautiful mimic of an ant.

The above list is necessarily imperfect. It had to be compiled

immediately for the publication of this volume, and there has been no

time to properly "work out" many of the species. It is interesting to

note the pale tint of so many of these Sudanese insects--a manifest

adaptation to environment, for purposes of concealment amid the

yellow sand of the desert.

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