the thirteenth, our boat and many others passed over to the right bank
of the river, in order to be on the same side as was the camp of the
Pasha,[27] and to have free communication with it.

The same day I received an order from the Pasha to come to the camp with
my baggage. I went accordingly and presented myself to his Excellency,
and demanded to know his pleasure. He replied, that it was his will that
I should stay in the camp, and that he would immediately furnish me with
the means of accompanying him in his intended march to Berber over the
Desert. Five days after, his Excellency broke up his camp, and proceeded
about four leagues higher up the rapids, where the boats were found
stopped by the impossibility of proceeding any farther, as the water
was found to be too low to admit their passing. I arrived at this place
(opposite the upper end of the island of Kendi) on the same day with his
Excellency, having left orders to my domestics to follow with my camels
and baggage. The next morning, finding that they had not arrived, and
learning that it was the intention of the Pasha to commence his march to
Berber that day, I mounted my horse to go and ascertain the reason why
my camels had not arrived. I learned, as I proceeded, that one of them
had fallen under his load, and that it would be necessary to send back
the first that should arrive and be unloaded, to take the burden of the
other. All my effects, inconsequence, did not arrive before evening.
During my absence to see after this vexatious affair, the Pasha had
departed with the camp, as I learned the same evening on my return.
After leaving the most bulky part of my baggage in one of the boats, I
proceeded on the 21st to the place where the Pasha's last camp had been,
to join some party who should have been delayed by circumstances similar
to my misadventure. On my arrival I found the Hasna Katib, and about
three hundred soldiers, waiting till camels should come from Berber
to carry them to join the Pasha. There were, besides, seven hundred