THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN meant to dance until daylight. The most interesting feature of the entertainment at Toski was the songs, and it seems a pity that some one with means and leisure cannot be found to go and live among the Berberi people for a few months, and take down the songs in writing and make copies of the tunes, so far as our modern system of musical notation will permit. It would, no doubt, be difficult to express the thirds of tones wherein Berberi tunes abound, but one would think that some way might be found of overcoming the difficulty. Both words and tunes are probably very old ; they may even date from pre-Islamic, or earlier days. Lepsius published four songs in his " Nnbische Gram-THE TEMPLES OK RAMESES II. AND THE GODDESS HATHOR AT ABU StMBEL IN THE EARLY MORNING.

matik," p. 287 ff., but every one will lament the loss of the copies of seventeen others which he wrote down and sent to a friend.

A few hours' steaming brought us abreast of Abu Simbel, which we reached almost as the sun rose, and we obtained a beautiful view of the four colossal statues of Rameses II. The expression of indescribable dignity and wisdom on the faces of these wonderful monuments changed every few minutes as the light grew stronger and brighter, and it seemed easy to imagine that the souls of the great king who were believed to inhabit them were holding converse with the sun-god, Ra-Harmachis, to whom the temple was dedicated. At this point the river is very wide during the inundation, but the deepest water runs swiftly 80