The cavalry were widely spread out, and the Lancers ascended to the top of the hill of El Teb, from which a view of the Dervish camp was obtained.
It lay some ten miles due south.

The Dervishes were disposed in three long lines, stretching from within two thousand yards of the Nile out into the desert, being careful to get, as they believed, beyond the range of the four gunboats that steamed quietly up.
After a short march the force halted near the river, two miles north of Kerreri.

The place was convenient for camping, but the banks of the river were steep, and there was much difficulty in watering the horses and transport animals.
"We are in for another bad night," one of the General's staff said to Gregory, as the evening approached.
"It looks like it.

Clouds are banking up fast.

If the rain would but come in the daytime, instead of at night, one would not object to it much.