APPENDIX I. A. LIST OF SUPPLIES FOR A DESERT EXCURSION, of six to ten persons, lasting sixteen days, and a cruise of five (total twenty-one days), supplied by Madame Chiaramonti, of Suez. MATÉRIEL. Chairs (rickety), table, napkins: to be returned after the Expedition. 15 (20) cases wine, vin ordinaire (tolerable). I case wine, assorted (Faval for Madeira, and not drinkable). 5 cases cognac (peculiarly bad). 5 (12) bottles absinthe. 15 kilogr. ground coffee. 2 kilogr. tea. 5 (2) kilogr. chocolate. 100 tins preserved meats, of sorts. 2 bales rice. 5 sheep, with fodder for 10 (3) days. 30 fowls, with food for ditto (3). 400 eggs (should have been greased). 50 kilogr. sugar. 15 (20) boxes butter. 10 okes (each 3lbs. 30z.) common butter. 10 tins concentrated milk. 15 kilogr. cheese. 10 kilogr. Italian pastes (vermicelli, etc.). Italian pastes, assorted, pâtes assorties. * The numbers in parentheses are the number which ought to have been taken. 24 kilogr. bread. 2 quintals charcoal (coals carried to Newcastle !). 20 (10) kilogr. beans and haricots (very useful). 45 (60) kilogr. onions. 50 kilogr. flour. 150 (172) kilogr. biscuits. 10 kilogr. chewing-tobacco (useful as presents, and smoked by the Arabs who never chew). 25 kilogr. salt. 2 kilogr. natron (intended as presents to the Arabs. Nonsense!). 20 packets candles. 3 dozen boxes matches. 5 (10) okes Turkish tobacco. 10 (20) boxes Zenobia cigars (smoked by friends). I box cigarette paper (all exhausted, much wasted). 24 bottles lemonade gazeuse (nauseous stuff). 6 (12) bottles syrup. 6 (12) bottles oil. 4 (6) bottles vinegar. 4 (12) cases beer. 20 bottles pickles. 10 okes common soap (much wasted). I case dried dessert-fruits (raisins very good against thirst). Io pots mustard. 200 g. sulphate of quinine. 12 parasols (coarse make, and very useful). Besides which, we carried some " Merceries," when a good housewife would have sufficed; Phénol (carbolic acid), good for bruises; vinaigre de toilette, utterly useless, and other notions, which were given away. The total expenditure upon these stores was about 2,500 francs, (= £100). Madame Chiaramonti also claimed fifty francs for lost napkins and other damages. The two French servants received each 150 francs, with twenty-five of bakhshish. B. LIST OF EXPENDITURES made during the Expedition commanded by Captain R. F. Burton, from March 29th to April 22nd, 1877. 10,648 O Cost of provisions, six to ten persons for twenty-one 50 days. Total hire of camels. Total cost of guides, Shaykhs, and ship-expenses. Advanced by M. Marie to Expedition. Wages of two cooks during Expedition. Hire of a special camel to the Hismá, or Terre- Postages. Cost of bags, etc. Cost of porterage and carriages at Suez. 1,563 o Advanced to Expedition, to Mr. Clarke. 28,263 20 (which have been duly paid from the moneys in charge of Ámir Effendi Ruschdi, of the État Major, acting under orders of the leader of the Expedition). The total sum supplied to the Expedition, by the order of H.H. the Viceroy, and H.H. Prince Husayn Kamil Pasha, Minister of the Interior, was: dollars 1073 (1=18:20 piastres tariff), Turkish sovereigns 150 (=100 piastres tariff). This rereduced to piastres at the current rates, the total would be 34,850 20; and the expenditure being 28,263°20, the surplus remaining in hand was, piastres 6,577, or $177'75. This sum was duly returned by me to H.H. Prince Husayn Kamil Pasha, Minister of Finance, etc. APPENDIX II. LIST OF CAPTAIN BURTON'S "LAND OF MIDIAN" PLANTS. (Supplied by the kindness of Professor Balfour, of the University, and Mr. Webb, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.) APPENDIX III. LIST OF INSECTS. HYMENOPTERA. Formicidæ. Camponotus sericeus, Fabr. LIPIDOPTERA. Synchloe daplidice, Linn. Sphingomorpha chlorea, Guenei. DIPTERA. Tabanus rufipes, Walk. ORTHOPTERA. Fam. Mantida. Eremiophila khamisin, Lefeb. Fam. Gryllida. Fam. Locustida. Poecilocera bufonia, Klug. Edipoda cærulans, Latr. Forficula bimaculata, Pal. de Beam. HEMIPTERA. Nepa rufa, Linn. |