THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN So far as can be seen from his narrative Cailliaud made no attempt to discover if there were any ruins in the hilly deserts on the ea't, and he seems to have been anxious to reach Gebel Barkal, at the foot of the Fourth Cataract. His account of his journey to this place is not particularly interesting, but it is worthy of note that he identified the remains on and near the Island of Kabenat as Christian, and that he found on them traces of paintings of figures of Saiht George and other Coptic saints.

There were no inscriptions to assist him in assigning a date to GEBEL Barkal, 302 feet hi(;h, opposite to the ancient Nubian capital OF napata.

them, but from what I saw ofthem myself it seemed to me that they belonged to the twelfth or thirteenth century. A journey of a few hours brought Cailliaud* to Gebel Barkal, where he stayed for some time, and made drawings and plans of the pyramids, &c. He measured Mount Barkal, and found it to be 1,340 metres in circumference, and, on its southern side, sixty-four metres high ; but it may be mentioned in passing that its altitude was taken in 1897 by Major the Hon. M. G. Talbot, R.E., who found that its height was 302 ft. We need not here follow Cailliaud through his descriptions of the pyramids, for they tell us nothing of the 50