But there on the brown rock you will see Belzoni.

And up higher is Gordon.

There is hardly a name famous in the Soudan which you will not find, if you like.
And now, with your permission, we shall take good-bye of our donkeys and walk up the path, and you will see the river and the desert from the summit of the top." A minute or two of climbing brought them out upon the semicircular platform which crowns the rock.

Below them on the far side was a perpendicular black cliff, a hundred and fifty feet high, with the swirling, foam-streaked river roaring past its base.

The swish of the water and the low roar as it surged over the mid-stream boulders boomed through the hot, stagnant air.