moved to?"

"They moved to Khartoum when trade grew better, and you will find them
there if Allah wills."

How long he would have gone on talking it is impossible to conjecture,
had it not been that a customer entered his stall, which was on the
opposite side of the street, and he shuffled off to attend to him, for
which Harry, who had got all the information he required, was by no
means sorry.

His one great desire now was to get away. To be so close, to find the
form of the hare almost warm, and yet to be just too late, was very
trying to his patience. It was all very well to say to himself that he
had only two hundred miles farther to go; and after travelling more than
a thousand from Cairo, let alone the journey out from England, what were
two hundred miles? But the answer he made himself was that two hundred
miles was a great distance, and there was the sixth cataract. He had
forced himself to be cool--mentally, of course, bodily coolness was
quite out of the question--all the way along, with looking upon Berber
as the end of his voyage. And here he had to go on another two hundred
miles, and up another tedious cataract. It was very disheartening.

However, there was no help for it; so he went at once down to the quay,
and began inquiries about boats going up. Luck here turned in his
favour, for there was one starting next day, and he engaged a passage by
it. And what was still more fortunate, the next day was Friday, and so
there was not any likelihood of the delay which is so charming to the
Nubian sailor mind. For Friday is their lucky day, and they would not
miss the chance of commencing any undertaking upon it on any account.
Now we account Friday an unlucky day (or used to do so). So either we
or the Soudanese must be utterly wrong--radically wrong. Which is it, I
wonder?

The dreary business commenced again on the morrow. A fair breeze, and
sailing; a foul one or a calm, and rowing; running on banks, and pushing
off; getting nearly wrecked half a dozen times in the rapids, and
escaping. And so they progressed until at length the mighty river
divided into two streams, that to the left the Blue Nile, that to the
right the White, and the real Nile, and they found at the junction the
city of Khartoum, dazzling in the glare of the sunshine, with the
governor's house and the mosque rising above the flat roofs.

Opposite the city, and on the west side of the Nile, there were a number
of tents vi