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

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