INDEX.

P Palace of Achmed Effendi, 13, 14.

Palms, dhoiiJH, 29, 44.

Panther, a, is seen, 222.

killed, 223, 238.

Paroquets, green, first appearance of, 39.

Partridges, good sport among the, 73, 216, 254.

Party of travellers, a, leave Cairo, i.

leave Cairo for the Egyptian Soudan, i.

Pacha Ala-ed-Deen, supreme governor, 13, 244.

frees prisoners, 15.

Pacha, Ali Reza, 13-15.

Peace, ceremony of making, 97, 120, 125, 229. Pere Picard, 45, 141, 240.

Pilgrims, Persian, a party of, 8, 9.

Takrooris, a band of, joins the caravan, 30-Pilgrimage to Mecca, 8, 31.

Pills, popularity of, among the natives, 130.

Potash, kegleek-trets rich in, 87.

Prairie, a fire in the, 155.

Press, alarming account in the English and Egyptian, 270.

Provisions taken from England, 20.

Q Quails appear, 65.

abundance of, 152.

Quol-qitol plant, attempt to make Indiarubber from, 255.

R Raid, horrible account of a, 214, 270.

Rains, coast, 10, 21.

Railway, a, five miles long, 13. Ras Aloula, 140.

Reefs, dangerous, 11. Rhammcs lotus, Jiebbtik-hnshts, 27.

Rifles, news of the stolen, 239. River Atbara, the, 3, 48. Road-making through the jungle, 82.

Rose-breasted shrike shot, 28.

s Sogada, village of, 156. Said Carcashi, Sheik, 138.

Salee, a tracker, 45, 117, 173.

Mahomet, 72.

Sanheit, 247.

often called Keren, 45. 247. Roman-Catholic church and schools at, 248-250.

Sand-grouse shooting, 19, 35, 63, 76. Sand-tempest, effects of a, 29.

Savage, African, fondness for medicine, 130.

Scare, a, 167.

the Base are coming ! 233. Scenery, monotony of the, 27, 159. Schools, good management of, at Sanheit, 248-250.

Scorpions, 40.

Secretary-bird shot, 256.

Seine fishing-net, success of the, 161.

Sellal Abou, the camp moves to, 211.

Servants, salaries of the native, 56, 154.

Settite, the, 146, 157.

fishing in the, 161, 168.

the travellers bid adieu to the, 207. budget of news from the, 212.

Sheiks, a visit from two Hamran, 178.

try to shoot the Base, 185.

offer to take the travellers to the Base Settite, 213.

Shereef, the staid and stately waiter, 6.

Shereker, the, 182.

Shrike, rose-breasted, shot, 28.

Siterabb, 26.

Slave-trade, the, 11.

caravans, 12.

Snake, a venomous, killed, 99, 214, 257. " Snodgrass," a camel, 20.

Souakim, port on the Red Sea, 2, 10.

party of Bedouins come to, 14.

curious washing-bill at, 16.

derivation of the word, 19. English consul appointed to, 262, 267. Soudan, the, i, 12. * * * ' Soumali country, three new ports added to the ports of call, 268.