CHAPTER VI VOYAGE TO SUAKIM. Composition of Force going to Suakim—The 1st Brigade—The 2nd Brigade—Zebeiir Pasiia, commanding the 2nd Brigade, NOT PERMITTED TO COME—COLONEL HARINGTON STARTS WITH 1st Detachment—Occupation of Soldiers on Board— Officers useless—Characteristics of the Fellah Soldiers —Their Superstitions and Powers of Endurance—Their Prayers—Teaching them Signalling—The Bashi-Bazouks —Their Music and Dancing—Their Dress—Our Pilot —Arrival at Suakim—Captain Darwell’s Bad News—Mr. Wylde, our Host, and iiis House—His Servants—Prin cipal European Inhabitants — Complaints against the Bashi-Bazouks—Visit to Suleiman Pasha—The False Rumours he brings—Untrustworthiness of our Spies— The English Officers. Having brought up my notes to the time when the expedition started, and thus explained in some degree the course of events that culminated therein, I now, in the leisure of ship-life, proceed to make out the numbers and composition of the force, as far as we know of at present. The commander-in-chief was Lieut.-General Valentine Baker Pasha. His head-quarter stalf consisted of Colonel Abdul Russak Bey, native chief of the staff; Lieut. - Colonel Fitzroy Hay, late of the Highlanders, European
