. Too late for Gordon and Khartoum; the testimony of an independent eye-witness of the heroic efforts for their rescue and relief. With maps and plans and several unpublished letters of the late General Gordon . e very small room, webivouacked in the open air round it. All of us werevery much knocked up by the fatigue we had undergone,and therefore hailed with satisfaction the prospect of anundisturbed nights rest. The Guards lay down under arms in front of thevillage, in which the Sussex were quartered with thewounded. The Heavies occupied a similar position onits left, and the Mounted Infant
. Too late for Gordon and Khartoum; the testimony of an independent eye-witness of the heroic efforts for their rescue and relief. With maps and plans and several unpublished letters of the late General Gordon . e very small room, webivouacked in the open air round it. All of us werevery much knocked up by the fatigue we had undergone,and therefore hailed with satisfaction the prospect of anundisturbed nights rest. The Guards lay down under arms in front of thevillage, in which the Sussex were quartered with thewounded. The Heavies occupied a similar position onits left, and the Mounted Infantry on its right. TheHussars bivouacked in its rear. The result of yesterdays fight had such an inspiritinginfluence that we all supposed no great difficulty wouldbe encountered in the proposed attack on therefore hoped for better quarters next night withinits walls. No sooner had we settled down for the nightthan we were roused by a fire which had broken out inthe thatched roof of one of the adjacent houses. MajorPoe with his men, however, soon got it under, and thenall became quiet again. At the very dawn of day on the 21st, I was awakenedfrom a sound sleep by the tramping past me of some of. CH. XVIII. MARCH ON METAMMEH 287 the soldiers marching from their bivouac to the point 4on the plan, where the column was about to be formedup for the attack on Metammeh. I was just in timeto see Colonel Barrow and the Hussars move out toreconnoitre the town. Their horses were evidently allthe better for their drink of Nile water, but still unfitfor cavalry work such as that now required of them. Infact they could not do it effectively, for instead of ridinground Metammeh, as under ordinary circumstances theywould have done, they rode up together to the highground to the north of the town and waited there for theattacking force. This comprised the Guards, part of theHeavies, the Mounted Infantry, the Naval Brigade withits Gardner, and the Royal Artillery with the three screwgu
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