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the Mudîr of Keneh presented his compliments to the officers and passengers of Messrs. Cook and Sons' Nile steamer, Rameses, and requested the pleasure of their company on the evening of Wednesday, January 10, at the reception to be given by him in honour of the visit of his Highness the Khedive, the Mudîr of Keneh reckoned without the inhabitants of Keneh and the surrounding villages, and without his own available staff of police. That is to say, he failed to form a concise estimate of the very considerable numbers of the one or the extremely slender force of the other. The consequence was that when the said Nile steamer Rameses had brought up alongside the Keneh landing-place, and P