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him. I found he was an enormous and very old dog- 

 wolf, tremendously strongly built, with huge shoulders, 

 head, and neck. He had lost the fourth toe on the 

 right forefoot in the wars before. He was in grand 

 condition, and was so heavy, it was with difficulty I got 

 him to some sand where I could bury him and leave 

 him for the night. This I did and rode home well 

 content, and was much congratulated. 



Sunday ', $rd March 1889. Left Cairo with Garstin 

 in a Khamsin wind by 11.30 train for Tel-el-Kebir. 

 At Zagazig met Messrs. Vetter (Russian Consul at 

 Zagazig) and his friend Autrano, who are to accompany 

 us. On arriving at Tel-el-Kebir at 4 P.M., met the 

 Sheikh Mavgelli, brother of Abba Sayoud, and his two 

 sons, about fifteen and seventeen years old, with his 

 four saker falcons and the camels, and the sheikh's 

 horse. We got the horses out of train and the camels 

 packed wonderfully quickly, and started, the sheikh's 

 tents having gone on before to Abbounashaba, about 

 7 miles in the desert, where we are to camp for the 

 night. Ride through the extensive deserted barracks 

 of the days before our occupation ; they are now roof- 

 less and in ruins. After getting out of them we 

 passed the great swamps of Tel-el-Kebir, where I saw 

 numerous waders which I could not well identify, but 

 redshanks, and I fancied black-tailed godwits were 

 amongst them. Shortly after leaving the swamps we 

 struck the edge of the Arabian desert, and then good- 

 bye to green for some days. To Abbounashaba and 

 some distance beyond the desert is covered with 

 mounds like ant-heaps of varying sizes, each with a 

 bush on the top of it, and I fancy it is the sand blown 

 round the bushes and accumulating which gives rise to 

 these humps. Just as we got near the camping-place, 

 I saw a falcon of some sort hunting an owl, and 



