48 
TEAVELS m CENTEAL AFEICA. 
The day following we arrived at Berber_, where we hoped to 
obtain the necessary camels to carry ns across the desert of Aboo 
Hamed^ to Korosko. Miss Tinne^ intending to cross with the 
Bishari Arabs to the shore of the Bed Sea at Souckim, disem- 
barked_, and occupied a neat house situated in a pleasant garden^ on 
the outskirts of the town^ and on the river-side. Von Heuglin 
occupied another house in the town ; but we preferred remaining 
in our boat^ that was replete with every comfort. 
The Governor of the place_, a Turk and an old acquaintance, 
received me with a show of cordiality that excited my suspicion, 
Avhen he endeavoured to explain the difficulties that existed with 
reference to my procuring camels for the desert journey. There 
were many camels then in and around the town, but he assured 
me they had all been engaged, but he would do his best to cause 
me but as little detention as possible. The continuance of a daily 
journal would but contain a tiresome repetition of our frustrated 
hopes, and the daily procrastinations and false promises that were 
made to us by the Governor, the camel purveyor, and the guides 
that were sent to us, with endless tales, to explain the reason why 
other p^eople were being supplied with camels in preference to our- 
selves. 
A month had thus passed away, when I became aware that the 
Governor- General, Moosa Pasha, had issued private instructions 
that I was not to be provided with camels until he himself, on the 
opposite side of the river, should be far on his way to Dongola. 
The Pasha evidently wanted to forestall me in Egypt, to be the first 
to convey verbally, to His Highness, the difference that existed be- 
tween us relative to the new regulations for the guidance of the 
White Biver trade. It was even rumoured that, now that I no 
longer held an official position as H.M. Consul, my life was in 
