LOSE MY SUNSHINE. 495 CHAPTER XXXVIII.

RETURN TO EGYPT.

I Lose my Sunshine, and Eegain it — Nubian Scenery — Den- — The Temple of Amada —Mysterious Kappings — Familiar Scenes— Halt at Korosko— Escape from Shipwreck— The Temple of Sebooa — Chasing other Boats — Temple of Djerf Hossayn— A. Backsheesh Experiment— Kalabshee— Temple of Dab6d — We reach the Egyptian Frontier.

The distressing coldness of the temperature the night before reaching Wadi Haifa, affected me more painfully than all the roastings I had endured in Soudan. My nose after losing six coats of skin, became so hard and coppery, that like Anthony Van Corlear's, the reflected rays from it might have pierced even the tough skin of a crocodile. My frame was so steeped in heat, that had our fuel fallen short, I might have " drawn " my tea, by hugging the kettle in my arms. I had been so bathed and rolled in light, the sun had so constantly, -with each succeeding day, showered upon me his burning baptism, that I came to regard myself as one of his special representatives, and to fancy that, wherever I went, there was a sort of nimbus or radiation around me. But those few drops of rain, among the stony mountains of the Batn El-Hadjar, quenched at once the glow of my outer surface, and the cold winds which