prisoners, and drilled them as soldiers with most successful results. In the subsequent fighting he frequently led a hundred of them himself into action. The idea occurred to him in a somewhat singular manner. He had an intense objection to writing reports, and whenever a man was killed in his company he reported the death, and immediately filled his place by one of these recruits, giving the recruit the dead man's name, number, rifle, and accoutrements.

This was not discovered for a long time, till the Commandant one day, on looking over the reports of effectives, found that Captain Doorme, though he had had 50 per cent, killed, had apparently his company identically the same, in names and numbers, as it was three or four months before. On the 16th of November the Arab forces, who had suffered severely from famine,