THE FATE OF POTIPHAR. 251 missariat, and Medical Corps, Engineers, Artillery, and Egyptians, being divided up between these stations.

The hot weather being at hand, it was necessary to get to our respective stations and build camps there as soon as possible. Now that the river column had returned, we had all their boats to make use of in taking us down the river. Camels there were none left worth speaking of ; the few that had dragged our kits back from Abu Haifa to Korti had been already sent back to help up the remainder of the desert force, and even they, poor brutes, were in such a condition of holes, maggots, and scragginess, that many of them never saw the river again. Alas, poor Potiphar! he must have been one of these, for, after bringing his share of kits to the Nile with us, he was sent back again, and though I made every inquiry afterwards about a big white camel, with a blue and white noseband, a vile temper, and a hole in his side big enough to put your helmet in, I never heard any more of him. Peace be to his bones !

The first to move were the Heavies, who, after having been in turn Cavalry, Infantry, and Mounted