FROM THE ATBARA TO WAD HAMED 63 Meroitic inscriptions ; but, alas, on the return journey the squeeze paper and photographic apparatus were lost by the capsizing of some ghyasses, and so I could do nothing in the cause of paleography.

A short distance past the pyramids we caught up a curious procession wending its way _along the bank. <A famous Gaalin sheikh, Hamara Wad Abu Sin, was journeying southwards to join the Anglo-Egyptian forces. This important ally led the way on foot, followed by a retainer armed with a Remington. Then came a baggage camel carrying the personal luggage of the chieftain, and the rear was brought up by two men and two boys. When the gunboat got opposite the old sheikh, he at once jumped into the river and swam to us, followed by one of the small boys, who kept his master’s bundle of clothes out of the water.

Wad Abu Sin is head of the Shukryeh tribe, and is noted throughout the Sudan for his personal bravery. His father was mxdir of Khartum under Gordon, and he himself was a prisoner in that town until he managed to escape through Abyssinia. It was touching to see the old man’s joy at meeting Slatin, his