18 SPORT IN THE EASTERN SUDAN 



when occasion required. Likewise four ghagras or 

 iron water-pots for my bath, also from India. Next 

 to my fantasses my most useful articles of transport 

 were, I think, my Jchajawahs, or camel-boxes, which 

 familiar articles of Indian travel are quite unknown 

 in the Sudan. These can be purchased in almost any 

 large town in northern India, but for the benefit of 

 the uninitiated, I may as well state that they are of 

 string, stretched upon a framework of wood, and 

 measuring some 30 inches in each dimension, and 

 weighing about 60 Ib. apiece. I strengthened them 

 with hoops of iron, and after withstanding the 

 voyage from Bombay to Souakin, packed with my 

 impedimenta, they lasted throughout the trip, and 

 were invaluable for the storage of heads, horns, and 

 miscellaneous articles ; one serving my Indian cook 

 as larder and pantry. So far as I can recollect, their 

 cost in India is less than 1 per pair, including stout 

 hooks and chains, and their universal introduction 

 into the Eastern Sudan can, I think, be merely a 

 question of time. 



As recommended by Baker, I carried my clothes 

 and books in iron boxes, which kept their contents 

 safely throughout the trip, and were still serviceable 

 at its conclusion. My ammunition was in sealed-up 

 tins, stamped with the contents, and carried in 

 regulation ammunition-boxes. My more valuable 

 rifle-cases were provided with green canvas covers, 



