4 WITH THE CAMEL CORPS UP THE NILE.

Infantry, whom we were to join in Egypt, were

somewhat differently constituted, and numbered al-

together about 25 officers and 480 men.*

Not much time was lost in getting our outfit, for

the orders were to start in four days. Needless to

say, this playful order was only meant to hurry the

department up a bit that did the clothing and arming,

and the " Guards' Camel Regiment" stood fully

armed and accoutred four days before we actually

started.

As people remarked at the time, the men's cos-

tume looked more like the seventeenth than the nine-

teenth century, the bandoliers, breeches, and stocking-

like putties giving them a look of the last Civil war.

The men were clothed in red serge "jumpers" (or

loose tunics), yellow-ochre cord breeches, dark blue

putties (or leg-bandages), and white pith helmets.

Their arms and accoutrements were rifle, sword-

bayonet, bandolier (of brown leather worn over the

left shoulder, and holding fifty cartridges), brown belt,

pouch, frog and sling, haversack and water-bottle ;

* See Appendix I. for names and details,