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The _Korosko_, a turtle-bottomed, round-bowed stern-wheeler, with a
30-inch draught and the lines of a flat-iron, started upon the 13th of
February in the year 1895, from Shellal, at the head of the first
cataract, bound for Wady Halfa. I have a passenger card for the trip,
which I here reproduce:

S.W. "KOROSKO," FEBRUARY 13TH.
PASSENGERS.

Colonel Cochrane Cochrane London.
Mr. Cecil Brown London.
John H. Headingly Boston, U.S.A.
Miss Adams Boston, U.S.A.
Miss S. Adams Worcester, Mass., U.S.A.
Mons. Fardet Paris.
Mr. and Mrs. Belmont Dublin.
James Stephens Manchester.
Rev. John Stuart Birmingham.
Mrs. Shlesinger, nurse and child Florence.

This was the party as it started from Shellal, with the intention of
travelling up the two hundred miles of Nubian Nile which lie between the
first and the second cataract.

It is a singular country, this Nubia. Varying in breadth from a few