[152] The above figures represent ordinary receipts only.
[153] It is said that Colonel Rundle, Chief of the Staff of the Egyptian army, was aroused to hear the news by stones thrown at his window in the middle of the night, and that no one could be found bold enough to awake and inform the Sirdar, who remained in ignorance until the morning.
[154] In this short campaign the battalion lost no less than sixty-four of their number (including those who died in Cairo soon after their return, principally from enteric fever).
[155] Reckoning six companies to a battalion, this would make Hunter's force amount to about 2,500 men.
[156] For a great part of the description above given the Author is indebted to Mr. Bennett Burleigh's "Sirdar and Khalifa."
[157] Later on Ed Damer was disestablished, and Fort Atbara, at the northern angle of the two rivers, was substituted for it.
[158] This has an important bearing on the choice of routes on the occasion of the despatch of "The Gordon Relief Expedition," dealt with in a previous chapter.
[159] Many of the above details of the engagement are taken from the "Morning Post."
[160] The new frontier was fixed at a spot called Zabderat.
[161] The trains attained a speed of twenty-five miles an hour.