io WITH THE CAMEL CORPS UP THE NILE.

party, train to start at six. Eventually the train

moved slowly out of the station at 8.15, and

we dawdled along till about midnight, when we

were shunted to make way for a train behind us ;

we sleepily looked at the passing train, and beheld

the rest of the battalion ! They got to Cairo two

hours before us, we not arriving till 8.30 ; over

twelve hours going 120 miles! We found the G.C.R.

(Guards' Camel Regiment) quartered in the Kasr

en Nil, a formerly beautiful palace, belonging to

Arabi, but which had since been turned into

barracks for the 49th (Berkshire). The next report was that there wouldn't be room

for us in Cairo, and we were to remain at the Pyramids

under canvas for the next week or so. Accordingly we

packed up again, and started early next morning (the

loth) to march there. It was rather warm work, and

tantalising too. Between the Pyramids and the

town is a large area of low-lying ground, covered

with water in the time of high Nile (just when we

were there) ; across this runs a causeway, bordered

with sycamores, straight on end for nearly five miles,