16 LIFE WITH THE HAMRAN ARABS. 



Nubia. A general stir is made about 6 A.M.; coffee, and 

 a bathe in the sea, sharks or no sharks ; breakfast, and 

 then to work again in good earnest. 



The Gondokoro division, having obtained their camels 

 (nineteen), started on their desert journey to Berber at 

 I P.M. Each one had purchased here a native bedstead, 

 or ' angarep/ for one and a half dollars, and though 

 cumbrous they are not heavy, and camels carry them 

 very well merely placed on top of their loads. They 

 simply consist of a framework of wood, filled in with 

 crossed strips of goat-skin, and supported on four short 

 legs rudely made and badly fitted. We have had a sale 

 to-day, and it was fortunate for our friends, both on shore 

 and on board, that our stores were in excess of our 

 present wants, for we were able to add some important 

 j\ items to their under-estimated supplies. Already we 

 ^- \ have found our pocket-filters very valuable, for with 

 only two suspended in a water-skin since our arrival 

 they have kept up a sufficient supply into a bucket 

 beneath them to satisfy the almost constant demands of 

 our visitors as well as ourselves, and we feel some pride 

 in having been congratulated by such experienced 

 travellers as the Gondokoro division upon the com- 

 pleteness of our arrangements. Our various parties 

 have now said good-bye to one another, and with sincere 

 regret, for one could not help feeling at the time that 

 in all human probability some of us will never meet 

 again. 



