DEATH OF DR. PENEY. 
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Soudan in the service of the Egyptian Government. He died at 
Gondokoro early in this year: he had been accompanied to that 
place by his wife. He went to Gondokoro,, at the request of 
the Viceroy, on a scientific mission, to continue his researches 
in botany, and to discover, if possible, plants that might, in his 
profession, be made useful to the people of the Soudan. 
Monday, ZQth. — Petherick and the Doctor were off to the boats 
before sunrise ; much had to be done, and the camels that had been 
left at the last stage had not yet arrived. I was wonderfully 
refreshed, and, with Achmed, netted many butterflies, insects, &c. 
The two guides and my own particular camel-man came to bid us 
farewell. It was not without emotion I did so : they seemed as 
friends to me ; in many ways they had shown so much thoughtful . 
consideration. My heart echoed their fervent prayer, That God 
would guard us ; that fortune, in all our j ust endeavours, would 
smile upon us; and that on our return journey they might again 
accompany us.^"’ I entrusted a quantity of dates to them for the 
naga I had ridden, though pretty well convinced that she would 
not receive them; as one morning, during the march, when we 
passed the head of the caravan, the horses being with it, calling a 
camel-man, I gave him, for “ Luxor,^^ my reserve store of biscuit 
and dates. He looked up joyously, and said ’t was better for him 
than the horse,^^ and ate them. 
When at dinner, speaking of some of the adventures, I remarked 
that I thought there had been only one fall from a camel : this was 
Rechan, the cook, who, leading Petherick^s horse, was pulled from 
his lofty seat, as Arab^^ suddenly stopped on hearing our approach. 
He got up immediately, not in the least hurt, sprang on the neck 
of his camel, and was soon in his place. But the Doctor said he 
