nded, and a third of his men hit. The Maxims
were accordingly carried over the river to the island, and placed so as
to command the west bank, which they soon cleared of the riflemen.

Over five hundred Arabs lay dead on the two islands. Two thousand one
hundred and seventy-five fighting men surrendered, and several hundred
women and children. Fadil, with the force that had escaped, crossed the
desert to Rung, on the White Nile, where on the 22nd of January they
surrendered to the English gunboats; their leader, with ten or twelve
of his followers only, escaping to join the Khalifa.

Our casualties were heavy. Twenty-five non-commissioned officers and
men were killed; one British officer, six native officers, and one
hundred and seventeen non-commissioned officers and men wounded of the
10th Soudanese, out of a total strength of five hundred and eleven. The
remaining casualties were among the irregulars.

Never was there a better proof of the gallantry of the black regiments
of Egypt; for, including the commander and medical officer, there were
but five British officers, and two British sergeants, to direct and
lead them.

After the battle of Rosaires, there was a lull in the fighting on the
east of the White Nile. The whole country had been cleared of the
Dervishes, and it was now time for the Sirdar, who had just returned
from England, to turn his attention to the Khalifa. The latter was
known to be near El Obeid, where he had now collected a force, of whose
strength very different reports were received.

Gregory, whose exertions in the fight, and the march through the scrub
from Karkoj, had brought on a slight return of fever, went down in the
gunboat, with the wounded, to Omdurman. Zaki was with him, but as a
patient. He had been hit through the leg, while charging forward with
the Soudanese. At Omdurman, Gregory fell into regular work again. So
many of the officers of the Egyptian battalions had fallen in battle,
or were down with fever, that Colonel Wingate took him as his
assistant, and his time was now spent in listening to the stories of
tribesmen; who, as soon as the Khalifa's force had passed, had brought
in very varying accounts of his strength. Then there were villagers who
had complaints to make of robbery, of ill usage--for this the Arab
irregulars, who had been disbanded after the capture of Omdurman, were
largely responsible. Besides these, there were many petitions by
fugitives, who had returned t