LAST DAY AT DONGOLA. 287 knowing that we should be out of this part of the country before many more weeks were over. There were not many preparations to be made. Furniture, mess-huts, beds and benches we left for the iQth or 5Oth, and of luggage we had not very much. There was no one left to say good-bye to, and all we had to do was to sit and wait for the 5Oth. The last evening I spent on Colonel C 's hospitable dahabieh, but beyond falling into the Nile on the way back to camp I do not remember much about it.