PREFACE.

IN presenting the following pages to the public, I feel that a certain apology is due, for it is now over three years since the Nile Expedition took place (and most people have forgotten all about it), and several accounts of it, infinitely better and fuller than mine, have been published. To tell the truth, my story was about to see the light two years ago, and it was only owing to circumstances over which I had not much control that its appearance has been delayed till now.

Another thing, this book does not profess to be anything more than what its title proclaims it to be, namely, a record of what the Camel Corps, and 250547