7 HE MOST IMPRESSIVE SIGHT l EVER SAW. 
All the officers then dismounted, the 
soldiers knelt, and, of a sudden, a great hush 
spread over the crowd which had only a few 
seconds before been noisily elated with 
excitement. 
The sight was one I shall never 
forget. 
TwenLy-five thousand men, drawn up facing 
towards Constantinople on a plateau on the 
edge of the cliffs, with bowed heads, knelt 
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on the ground. For a few seconds there was 
an intense silence. The High Priest, in his 
gorgeous vestments, and the attendant clergy 
knelt in silent prayer. Suddenly the great 
hush passed, and in the declining radiance of 
an evening from which the storm-clouds were 
heavily drifting off, the solemn tone of a TV 
Deum mingled with the roar of winds and 
wave. And then, for a moment, all was peace 
again. 
YI. 
Tke Charge of the Dervishes at Khartoum. 
By GENERAL SIR NEVILLE LYTTELTON. 
Illustrated by 
On the assumption that I am undertaking to 
write on what I have seen in my military 
capacity. 1 have no hesitation in saving that 
the great charge of the Dervishes in the Battle 
of Khartoum was by far the most impressive 
sight I have ever witnessed, 
I saw some forty thousand of the bravest 
Ernest Prater. 
men in the world streaming across the open, 
disdaining all cover, and with nothing of the 
nature of a surprise in their attack, suffering 
hideous losses and inflicting scarcely any, and 
not giving in until the absolute impossibility 
of the attempt was proved beyond a doubt. 
It is doubtful whether such an onslaught as 
QUARTER-, AND THEY PRESSED ON WITH UNDIMIN'ISHED ARDOUR. 
