6 SPORT IN THE EASTERN SUDAN 



travel home by rail and steamer via Khartoum to 

 London. Leaving Souakin on 1st October, 1910, by 

 the end of April I rather expected to have exhausted 

 the list of game that I should be permitted to shoot. 

 However, this process proved very much longer than 

 I had anticipated, and I finally reached the Blue 

 Nile on 19th May, 1911, having omitted the Atbara 

 Valley above Son from my programme, and without 

 having bagged koodoo or elephant. I then had to 

 decide between proceeding direct to London to see 

 the Coronation of King George V, or up the Blue 

 Nile after koodoo and elephant, and I chose the 

 latter. My trip was thereby extended so long that 

 I did not sail from Port Sudan until 28th June, 

 having landed at Souakin on 30th September. During 

 the whole of this period I may say briefly that I 

 never felt sick or sorry, and after nine months under 

 canvas or in the open, landed in England as fit as I 

 ever felt in my life. For a man of thirty-nine years 

 of age, who had already spent nearly sixteen years 

 in India, this single fact speaks volumes for the 

 excellence of the climate of the country. I had a well- 

 stocked medicine-chest, but I myself needed little but 

 quinine, Cockle's Pills, and Holloway's Ointment. 

 Indeed, my entire establishment, consisting generally 

 of two Hindustani servants, two Arab shikaris, four 

 Arab camel-men, one Arab goatherd, eleven camels, 

 three donkeys, and a small herd of goats, was almost 



