The following extract from a letter iglish officer at Suakim to anghai has been kindly placed at our posal Suakim, 5th Dec., 1885.
Of conse the story of the '85 Soudan campaign is now a matter of tory, but atill a small account of Sual may interest you, The harbour is an inlet in " coral buitud coast; the country round la desert with mountains in the background; outside the town is a line of forts, which form the advance posts or enter line of defence, outside which it la not safe to yo 5 the Berber railway rive rather it weed un) about twenty aniles out, but in what state the line is, We cannot tell, as we 4.—Cnaasze Cur.—Presented. Value $140. j mile.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.