CONTENTS. xi CHAPTER XXV.

PAGE Life at Dongola Building straw huts The town The bazaar . . .... 258 CHAPTER XXVI.

Other amusements Ponies Dog-hunting Shooting D and his pelican Birds Fishing .... 267 CHAPTER XXVII.

Mails Post-office peculiarities Rumours Conflagrations . 274 CHAPTER XXVIII.

'The Lotus Boat-races Temple-digging Gymkhana meetings Panic among the natives Orders to quit . . .279 CHAPTER XXIX.

We leave Dongola Abu Fatmeh Krooboys Getting downstream Egyptian athletics Wady Haifa . . . 288 CHAPTER XXX.

Down the river in dahabiehs Korosko Assouan Edfou Assiut Cairo A disappointment Alexandria Home .301 f Appendices . . . . . . . . . 309