REST-CAMPS. 295 for hours. Once a flock of cranes led him out of sight altogether, and he missed the turning into the rest-camp and wandered on twelve miles or so to the next ; but never a feather did he get.

Crocodiles there were also ; occasionally one of them would be aroused by our splashing and slide out into deeper water, but nobody ever got a shot at one.

The rest-camps we passed the daytime in were composed of half-a-dozen large straw huts for us, and a couple of tents for the officer in charge of the station.

They were all very much alike, and with no particular features to remember them by, except that at Koyek, where I remember there was a comfortable mud-house and a big mud-mosque, with Grenfell of the loth Hussars in command. The names of the camps from Dongola down to Wady Haifa were as follows : Abu Fatmeh, Kaibar, Dulgo, Absarat, Saad Effendi, Koyematto, Ushematto (somebody shot a sand-grouse here with a rifle browned a covey sitting), Koyek, Abri, Sarkamatto, Dal, Akasheh, Tanjour Road, Ambigol Wells, "Railhead," and Wady Haifa, but I have no distinct recollection as to what the first