We are taking him to the hospital at Assouan, but we do not think that he will live.

He fell from a palm tree three weeks ago." "You give him nothing to eat or drink ?" "He is too ill." It was a common story and the logical outcome of the belief that life and death are written and will inevitably befall after the manner of the writing.

That man lying so quiet beneath the black covering had probably at the beginning suffered nothing more serious than a bruise, which a few simple remedies would have cured within a week.

But he had been allowed to lie, even as he lay upon the angareb, at the mercy of the sun and the flies, unwashed, unfed, and with his thirst unslaked.

The bruise had become a sore, the sore had gangrened, and when all remedies were too late, the Egyptian Mudir of Korosko had discovered the accident and sent the man on the steamer down to Assouan.