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 the mean temperature during August last as follows; maximum 116'10°, and minimum 90'70°. On looking through these returns I found that in this month there were six days when the temperature was over 120° and thirteen on which it was over 116°, while there were only two on which the maximum temperature was below 100°, and on both these the thermometer stood at 99°. After the middle of September the temperature became slightly lower, but there did not appear to be very much difference between the two months. I shall refer to the temperature that we experienced during the campaign further on.

The population of Suakin is very "mixed."

There are Arabs belonging to all the neighbouring tribes—Hadendowas, Amaras, Fadlabs, Beni Amers, Bisharems, and Shaharibs. There are also a number of Soumalis.

They are quite black in colour, and naked with the exception of a white cloth worn round the loins. The women, at least some of them, cover their faces with a thin white material, which they wear wound round them and over their heads. These are mostly the married women. They all wear gold ornaments in their noses and ears. Certainly the operators, who made the holes in their noses to