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CHAPTER XVIII. 



April 25. 5.30 A.M. actually found us outside the 

 Kassala gates and commencing our last desert journey, 

 accompanied by two soldiers whom we have taken to 

 keep our Hadendowa Arabs in order, remembering the 

 trouble we had with them on a previous occasion. 

 Hadji Basheer, Mohamed Fagerole, and Albert are num- 

 bered amongst the absent ones. Albert's prostrate con- 

 dition compelled us to leave him behind in the house we 

 occupied, but we have given him all the stores we could 

 afford, and have made every other possible arrangement 

 for his comfort, besides engaging a man to look after 

 him. Now that he is left a good deal to his own 

 resources, it is probable that he will see the necessity of 

 rousing himself, and we hope that he will be able to ac- 

 company Mr. Cohen to Cairo. 1 Lorenzo has under his 

 charge seven baggage-camels, and these with ours make 

 a total of twenty-four. We have now no horses, for 



1 Albert arrived in Cairo about the middle of June with Mr. Cohen, 

 but he was in a very weak state, and he had the misfortune of being robbed 

 by Arabs in the desert of all his things. 



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