60 WITH THE CAMEL CORPS UP THE NILE.

thus more susceptible to the heat of the sun, plaster him all over with mud during the hot months, which keeps the sun and flies off during the day, and, maybe, protects him somewhat from the cold at night.

Every day arrived driblets of troops : part of the Sussex (3 5th), Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (46th), Essex (56th), Gordon Highlanders (75th), Black Watch (42nd), and Staffordshire (38th) in whalers; Commissariat, Transport, Hospital, and Engineers' stores on nuggers ; some companies of Heavies and Lights, on their camels ; another squadron of the iQth Hussars, and, on the 26th, four officers and 101 men of the Marines, come to be attached to us as our 4th company.

Of our seven detachments, three (Grenadiers) formed the ist company, two (Scots Guards) the 2nd, and two (Coldstream) the 3rd ; the Marines now came to make up the 4th company of the Guards' Camel Regiment. They had been at Suakin for the last six months, and were originally to be brought up the Nile to form Lord Wolseley's body-guard ; that idea,