A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar

"I ARRIVED at the camp at Wady Halfa on the Second Cataract, on the 16th of the moon Zilhadge, in the year of the Hegira 1235, where I found about four thousand troops, consisting of Turkish cavalry, infantry and artillery, and a considerable proportion of Bedouin cavalry and Mogrebin foot soldiers; besides about one hundred and twenty large boats loaded with provisions and ammunition, and destined to follow the march of the army to the upper countries of the Nile."