A VALUABLE PRESENT. 17 



Our camel-men, headed by their chief, came this 

 afternoon, and having arranged our baggage so as to 

 calculate the number of camels that would be required, 

 we have agreed in the presence of the Governor to hire 

 thirty-two at four and a quarter dollars per head for the 

 entire journey to Kassala, and to pay for them in advance, 

 this being the invariable custom at Souakim, though not 

 elsewhere. The quarter-dollar is the claim of the chief 

 of the camel-men. Before leaving us, the Governor 

 made a special request for some good medicine, and 

 though it was slightly indefinite, our stores were equal 

 to the occasion of finding him some that will give him 

 every reason to remember us whatever his complaint 

 may be. Messrs. Savory and Moore have supplied us 

 with a specially made medicine-chest, which contains, 

 both in quantity and variety, all that we can well require 

 to meet every emergency. We have felt the heat to-day 

 decidedly oppressive, reaching 90 Fah. in the shade, as 

 our allotted ground in which we have worked so busily is 

 very much shut in from any light breeze ; and, in order 

 to ensure a bette r night's rest, two of ushave agreed to 

 sleep in the Governor's house on the island. 



