lant fight was
a cut across the forehead, from which the blood, pouring over his face,
partially blinded him. He was then cut across the hands, the fingers
being severed from the left and partially so from the right one, and,
badly wounded in both elbows, he could no longer hold the rifle.

He then appears to have tried to get hold of any of his foes or of
anything wherewith to fight on, but, blinded as he was, his efforts were
in vain. He fought thus for upwards of twenty minutes, keeping his face
to his assailants, and having no thought, or making no effort, to seek
safety by jumping overboard. At length he was shot through the heart
and fell dead, having, besides the fatal one, received no less than
twenty wounds, most of them of a severe, and two of a mortal nature.

During this time, of the men in the water, Thomas Bishop, seaman, was
badly wounded, and was supported to the dinghy astern of the pinnace by
William Venning, leading stoker, who was himself slightly wounded in the
head by a slug. There he held on, but the Arabs, hauling the boat up
alongside the pinnace, cut him over the head until he sank.

Samuel Massey, A.B., was severely wounded, and was supported to the
shore, a distance of about 700 yards, by Alfred Yates, leading seaman,
and William Colliston, ordinary; the remaining stoker swam there by
himself, as also did the interpreter. The writer (third class), John
G.T. Aers, having been mortally wounded at the first fire, there was
left on board the pinnace only the captain's steward, who lay quiet,
pretending to be dead.

The Arabs then left the boat and sailed away in their dhow, when the
leading stoker got on board of her,--he having been in the water all the
time,--got up steam, and picked up the men on the beach.

CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE.

THE EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN--1882.

The bombardment of Alexandria, which commenced the war in Egypt, was of
the highest interest to naval men; for here, for the first time,
ironclad ships, armed with new and heavy ordnance, attacked forts
mounted with the heaviest guns. A bloodless revolution had taken place
in Egypt. The army, headed by Arabi Pasha, had quietly pushed aside the
authority of the Khedive, and had become supreme in Egypt. The people
at large were with the army, and regarded the movement as a national
one; its object being to emancipate the country from foreign control.
England was unable to behold the change without apprehension; the
Khed