Much better this, bey, than to load stores at Merawi." Gregory was much gratified, that evening after mess, at the kindly manner in which the members of the staff all shook hands with him, and said that they were sorry that he was going to leave them.

General Hunter was dining with the Sirdar.

The next morning, when Gregory went to say "Goodbye" to him, he said: "I was telling Sir Herbert Kitchener, yesterday evening, that you were transferred to the naval branch.

He said: "'The gunboats will all take up troops, and there will be native officers on board.

It is a rule in our army, you know, that all white officers have the honorary rank of major, so as to make them senior to all Egyptian officers.