THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN than other Sudani folk, but I did not find this to be the case. During the whole time I was at Barkal I lost nothing which my sals did not steal, and he was not a native of that part of the Sudan ! The Siidani folk are greedy for money, grasping, and quite insatiable as regards presents or bakshish, but those are qualities not confined to the Sudan ! It is impossible for any one who has lived in the country to preserve any illusions he may have once had about their habits and character, but KASSINGAR HII.L.

too much must not be expected, even under British rule, from people who have been ill-ruled and ill-used for thousands of years, in a land where slavery in one form or another has been a permanent and universal institution, and where wrong and oppression have dogged the lives of all but a few for untold generations.

But for the pyramids and remains of temples at Barkal the neighbourhood of Merawi was an uninteresting place, and the visitor was driven to explore the country for a few miles up and down the river. In 1897, in comparison with the camp at Sanam Abu Dom, the village of Kassingar, about twelve miles up stream 232 I