I had arranged a raft by attaching eight inflated skins to the bedstead, upon which I lashed our large circular sponging bath.

Four hippopotami hunters were harnessed as tug steamers.

By evening all our party, with the baggage, had effected the crossing without accident--all but Achmet, Mahomet's mother's brother's cousin's sister's mother's son, who took advantage of his near relative, when the latter was in the middle of the stream, and ran off with most of his personal effects.
The life at our new camp was charmingly independent.

We were upon Abyssinian territory, but as the country was uninhabited we considered it as our own.

Our camp was near the mouth of a small stream, the Till, tributary to the Atbara, which afforded some excellent sport in fishing.
Choosing one day a fish of about half a pound for bait, I dropped this in the river about twenty yards beyond the mouth of the Till, and allowed it to swim naturally down the stream so as to pass across the Till junction, and descend the deep channel between the rocks.