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