WITH THE CAMEL CORPS

UP THE NILE.

CHAPTER I.

Formation of the Camel Corps Start from London Alexandria

Cairo Camp at the Pyramids Assiut.

ONE day in September, 1884, on coming off one of

those numerous guards in Dublin that make a

subaltern's life a burden to him, I found the joyful

news awaiting me that I was to go out to the Soudan

at once with the Camel Corps detachment of my

battalion.

As everybody knows, this sudden despatch of

troops to the Nile was due to the Government having

suddenly taken into its head the idea that it was