Chapter VI: After the Battle

The Mahdi's Tomb--A Wounded Man lands under False
Pretences--Villiers' Bicycle in Omdurman--Loathsome
Streets--The Arsenal--Dervish Ammunition--The
"Man-stopping" Bullet--Awful Effects of Modern
Rifle Fire--The Gordon Memorial Service--Varieties
of Loot--A Tommy's Quaint Mistake--Enrolment
of Dervishes under the Khedive's Flag--Charles
Neufeld--The Austrian Sisters--Slatin Pasha in
Camp--Good-bye to Omdurman--We strike on a
Sandbank--Our Sleeping Arrangements--Failure of
Attempts to move Gunboat--A Soldier Drowned--A
Dead Egyptian--We get off the Bank--Loss of my
Luggage--Cross goes to Hospital--Delays on Homeward
Journey--Mohammedan Divorce Laws--A
Camel dies from the Bite of an Asp--A Good Dinner--From
Alexandria to Marseilles--Announcement of
Cross's Death--The Future of the Sudan 222

MAP AND PLANS

THE NILE FROM THE ATBARA TO KHARTUM _Facing page 104_

THE BATTLE OF OMDURMAN (TWO PLANS) _Facing page 202_

PLAN OF OMDURMAN AND KHARTUM TO ILLUSTRATE
THE OPERATIONS OF THE GUNBOATS AND THE
FRIENDLIES _Facing page 214_

THE DOWNFALL OF THE DERVISHES