c lett Alexandria for Cairo at 8.45 i.e. 9. i?. Luggage 

 on truck with Rogers hanging on behind, worth some- 

 thing to look at. Roads awful nearly capsized half- 

 a-dozen times. . . . Run through the Delta very enjoy- 

 able; lots of ducks, snipe, hawks, plovers, herons, 

 egrets, kingfishers, etc., etc. Lord Durham and Col. 

 Thesiger in another carriage. Got to Cairo safely at 

 4. p.m.' They spent about a fortnight in Cairo, and of 

 course visited the Pyramids. The diary for January 1 8 

 reads, c Went to the Pyramids on donkeys. Party con- 

 sisted of self, O. B., Lord Durham, Col. Thesiger, Sir 

 Patrick Murray, Noyes and " the German ". Went full 

 split most of the way, with the donkey-boys after us 

 shouting like demons, just like Bedlam broke loose. 

 Pyramids worth seeing from their size, etc., but the mode 

 of " doing " it is getting cockneyish. Found some good 

 spiders under stones, but not many.' On the z8th they 

 started on a trip up the Nile, which, in spite of many 

 delays owing to lack of wind or the laziness of the boat- 

 men, brought them much enjoyment and plenty of good 

 shooting. Each day's entry in the diary records the 

 birds shot or seen, and notes also any remarkable ento- 

 mological captures; but, unfortunately, my father's 

 setting case had been c missing ' from their luggage at 

 Cairo, and he had little apparatus with him. (The set- 

 ting case was not recovered for nearly three months.) 

 On Sundays he regularly held a service on the boat, and 

 kept up this custom in all his travels during this year 



