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-

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