At present the only roads used by occasional caravans are from Berber to Assuan and Suakin.

But failing health obliged him to go to Egypt, where he died at Assuan on the 5th of March 1903.

What shall we see in this miserable cabin—with the exception of the Tic-balan,5 or Assuan?

We made our way across the sand, into which our donkeys' feet sank above their fetlocks, to the bazaars of Assuan.