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placed on four legs^ a foot from the ground^ the body of the anger ib 
is composed of thin strips of green bullock-hide^ which are inter- 
laced closely crossways : this is done when the hide is moist; it soon 
dries, and, though strong, is somewhat pliable ; and with a rug only 
placed over it, and a pillow, it forms a comfortable resting-place. 
Petherick was invited by the Governor of Khartoum to attend 
at the disinterment of a former Governor, Arakil Bey, brother of 
Nubar Pasha, who, dying at Khartoum, and not a Mahommedan, 
was buried in the Christian cemetery then but recently constructed. 
Arakil Bey, an Armenian, was appointed Governor by His Royal 
Highness Said Pacha, whom he had accompanied on his visit to 
the Soudan. The body was now to be removed to Egypt, where 
his family resided. Herr B and Petherick were the only 
Europeans then at Khartoum who had attended his death and been 
present at the burial, and their testimony was requisite to identify 
the spot, no stone having been placed to distinguish it. 
Early in the morning, the Governor, attended by a numerous 
suite, proceeded to the church ; after prayers, the coffin, which was 
removed from the spot where Petherick and Herr B — — remem- 
bered its having been deposited, was opened, and the face of Arakil 
Bey was easily recognized, little decay having taken place. The 
coffin was then placed in a new one, and borne to the divan of the 
Governor, His Excellency J affer Bey, preceded by a guard of sol- 
diers, the Coptic priests in their church robes, and followed by the 
Governor's suite, all the Europeans, and a large assembly of 
people. 
In February four German Protestant missionaries, attached to a 
Scotch society for the conversion of the Jews, arrived at Khartoum. 
They were on their way to Abyssinia, there to establish themselves. 
These clergymen gave us at the Consulate two services, and preached 
