APEICAK WANDERINGS.

CHAPTER I.

IMceting of the Brothers.— Fever in Chartum.— Travelling Projects. — Present from tbe Pascha. — The Divan. — A German Sultan Party at Soliman Eft'endi's.— Prepai-ations for Departure.

For about a year I and my youngest brother had resided at Chartum, the capital of Belhid-Sndan, in the district of Sennaar, .'It which place we had arrived after a journey of three months, from Cairo. Of all my brothers, Joseph was the dearest to me, and loved me in turn most devotedly. Ai'ter passing his medical examinations in Berlin, he had come to pay me a visit and make himself acquainted with the remarkable diseases of Egypt, ere he settled down for life.

In the tavern of Guerra, in Cairo, he recognised me the instant he entered the room ; whereas I took him for some impertinent Frenchman, when in his joyful surprise he stared at me from head to foot, and laughed at the rage I showed, and the furious look with wliich I strode towards him to demand what he meant, and call him to account on the spot. We had not met for eight years, and besides that he had meanwhile grown into manhood, his whole expression of countenance was changed, as a severe sabre cut he had received in a duel had severed the risible muscles of one side of his face, and the poor fellow could only laugh with the other side of it. The joy of this meeting, in another quarter of the globe, proved so overpowering to both of us, that at first tlw wine would not go down, for all that many cou-B