284 SERVICE AND SPORT IN THE SUDAN 



In the south, the cannibal Sultans were said to be 

 of real importance. I doubt, however, that they were 

 more so than the Ferogei Sultan, Musa Hamed. We 

 have a parallel, however, in Europe, in the sovereign 

 princes of Germany. 



I took a passage on the recently-laid railway to 

 Suakin, and there got on board the s.s. Dakhlieh. 

 My orderly, Saleh Allah Gabu, a Golo, accom- 

 panied me. To him all was wonderful, especially 

 when once we lost sight of land. Some years 

 before I had brought my Camel Corps orderly, 

 Khaleel Abu Nur, to Cairo, and left him there while 

 I was on leave. He had got quite blase when I 

 returned. He met me at Alexandria, and told me 

 that the sea was really salt, "at least close to land." 



I returned to Cairo in the last days of July, and 

 there heard that I was to take up the duties of Land 

 Settlement Officer in Haifa Province. However, on 

 my arrival there I found that I had been appointed 

 Acting Governor of the province. I took over my 

 duties at a highly interesting period. Naturally, in 

 the " frontier " province one felt a little of the excite- 

 ment that shook native Egypt during the Denshaui 

 and Akaba incidents, aggravated by the fact that 

 cholera had broken out there. 



The province looked back on years of administra- 

 tion, so there was not much to do. No longer did 

 one employ hundreds of workmen, build houses, 

 and have to improvise necessaries. Even the natives 

 drank mineral waters ! 



The governor's " palace " was our mess, and situated 



