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 the Times in the Sudan. For seven months, throughout an exceptionally torrid summer, even for the Sudan, the Nile expeditionary force had been marching, fighting, or sweltering in desert cholera camps; the battles of Firket and Hafir had been fought; Dongola and Merawi had been occupied; five hundred miles of the Nile Valley had been recovered from the Dervish tyranny; the campaign had come to a close for that year, and it was known that the Egyptian army would make no further advance until the following summer.

We war correspondents sold our horses and camels, and made arrangements to travel down the Nile by boat from Dongola to Kosheh, which was at that time the southern terminus of the military railway. Permission was given to us to take passage on the Government sailing-boats, of which many were employed in transporting supplies from Kosheh to