THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN reflecting that if there were a disturbance, and if the report of it reached the ears of the Government officials, he would certainly lose everything he had found, he determined to make his escape that very night. He despatched his camels to Berber, under the charge of his confidential servants, and he and Stefani sailed thither in a Government vessel which had been placed at BRONZE VESSEL, WITH HANDLE, ORNAMENTED WITH DIONYSOS MASKS.

From the Ferlini Collection, and now in the Antiquarium at Munich.

his service. Abbas Agha, the Governor, received him kindly, and made him his guest for eight days ; at the end of that time Ferlini left Berber, and a journey of two days brought him to Abu Hamed. Here he laid in a supply of water, and then set out across the desert for Korosko, which he reached in about 294