DOINGS OF LORD LONDESBOROUGH IN EGYPT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 224, 8 September 1862, Page 6

DOINGS OF LORD LONDESBOROUGH IN EGYPT.

(FROM THE FIELD.) • We have pleasure in laying before our readers a statement of the sport secured by Lord Londesborough on the Nile. His lordship left England by the mail steamer in November last, for Alexandria, and arrived safe after a A-ery stormy passage. The large flat-bottomed barge in which his lords'iip Avas to take the journey up the Nile being in readiness, no time was lost in starting for Cairo. The class of barge used for navigating the Nile is -of a build peculiar to the country, being upwards of 150 ft. long by 20ft. broad, and fitted up replete Avith every com-enience for the comfort of the traveller and his party. These craft are rowed with long oars, having from ten to fifteen men on each side the boat, and are let out by the owners in Alexandria, and navigated by experienced pilots and men. The cost of equipment is expensive, and only within the reach of Avealthy men like the noble lord whose sport we are now chronicling. The crew are supplied with separate cabins, so that they are enabled ■to shelter from the heavy and pernicious dews peculiar to that climate after sunset. The river is in most parts very shallow, and none but vessels of this description can navigate it in safety. The sport is A*ery A rariable, and not Avorth following- untill you reach nearly five hundred miles up the country. The class of shooting Avill be fully ascertained by reading the statement given below. A good marksman can alwaj-s find plenty of exciting amusement Avith his rifle in shooting alligators, Avhich abound in this part of the Nile. They are, however, very shy, and avoid the haunts of men as much as possible. Lord Londesborough did not commence shooting until the latter end of December, and continued his sport until about the 25th of February, having killed the grand total of 5,576 head—namely, 9 pelican?, 1,514 geese, 328 Avild ducks, 47 widgeon, 5 teal, 66 pintails, 47 flamingoes, 38 curlews, 112 herons and storks, 2 quails, 9 partridges, 3,283 pigeons, and 117 miscellaneous. His lordship then left the Nile, and proceeded to the Delta. His further doings Aye hope to furnish our readers with at some future day.