246 WITH THE CAMEL CORPS UP THE NILE.

Hill" and another at Abu" Haifa, messages could be signalled straight from Korti to Gakdul in a very short time.

There we slept during the day, and moved off towards sundown, at 4 p.m. It was a curious foggy, murky evening ; the setting sun beamed dimly through the clouds of dust, and we thought we were in for a regular khamseen. However, night went on, and the sky luckily cleared ; we marched steadily ahead in the faint moonlight, and by the time the sun rose again, were within ten miles of " Thirty-mile Hill," where there was a reservoir of water from Korti.

Arrived at the camp, we got a good night's rest there ; the following day we moved off in the early morning, and did about seventeen miles, bivouacking on the soft sand.

Next day, the gth March, we passed " Twelvemile Hill" early, and arrived within sight of the Nile and Korti about three o'clock. Not even Xenophon's Greeks could have been more delighted to see their sea than we to behold the prospect of unlimited drink, unlimited washing, civili-