INCIDENT OF THE MARCH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 86, 14 March 1885, Page 3

INCIDENT OF THE MARCH.

'""Qfn being 'lost in' the desert, a letter from one of the > selected officers m the Soudart Camel Corps reiaterfan anecdote which has apparently stuck m the fill£iv through which'- Egyptian news reaches.us, but its repetition oanuot do theslightto, anyone. Qll their. journdy up to Korti a detachment of the corpfs, taking.a desert -.rputo,. across one of tho river bends, contrived to lose their way. A short cut ..which should have occupied a few hours con seined, tiie best part of; siday, and still there was no prospuct of a .liuish, and no food. , pareful calcula-i tions having been made (for the tn.'ips seem to have gone astray), and the na- . tive. guides having beeiiniadu to experience wholesome, and effectual warnings, the detachment again stmck into the right track, though not till officers and ; privates alike had undergone much suf- : feriiig frdin want of i-eat anti provisioiis. That the' guides /intended ■ treacfiqry there is 116 room for 'doubt, ahd the es-,, cape appears to have" beeli'due e'ntireljv, tp a young officer rof a scientific turn) who cast his reckonings m the deserj w ( ith great, sagacity. . This is one of thei ' few. instances m. . which ,treachery has^ been attempted by the gii idesj and per-; haps it.iuay be.the'reason.wl^ this iniscbauce of <the Caniel Corps has been passed' over with tho merest reference.