February 9, 1881, they were married. The
Empress is about a year younger than the Emperor, and makes an
excellent mother to her four little sons, to whom she is devoted.
Their oldest child, little Prince William, the present Crown Prince,
was born at Potsdam, May 6, 1882. His father's devotion to the army
will doubtless prompt him to make a soldier of his son at an early
age; in fact, he wore the uniform of a fusilier of the Guard before he
was six years old.

The imperial family consists of seven children. The
eldest, the Crown Prince of Germany and Prussia, is Prince
Friedrich-Wilhelm-Victor-August-Ernst, born May 6, 1882. The second
child is Prince Wilhelm-Eitel-Friedrich-Christian-Karl, born July 7,
1883. The third is Prince Adalbert-Ferdinand-Berenger-Victor, born
July 14, 1884. Prince August-Wilhelm-Heinrich-Victor was born January
29. 1887. The fifth child, Prince Oscar-Karl-Gustav-Adolf, was born
July 27, 1888. The sixth child is Prince Joachim-Francois-Humbert. He
was born December 17, 1890. The youngest is a girl, Princess
Victoria-Louise-Adelaide-Mathilde-Charlotte. She was born September
13, 1892.

Our engraving is from the last portrait of the Emperor William, and we
are indebted for it to the Illustrirte Zeitung.

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MY RECENT JOURNEY FROM THE NILE TO SUAKIM.

BY FREDERIC VILLIERS, IN THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS.

THE ADVANCE TO KHARTOUM.

The recent campaign in the Soudan was a bloodless one to the
correspondent with the expedition, or, rather, on the tail of the
advance. Yet I think, in spite of this little drawback, there is
enough in the vicissitudes of my colleagues and myself during the
recent advance of the Egyptian troops up the Nile to warrant me
addressing you this afternoon. Especially as toward the end of the
campaign the Sirdar, or Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian army, Sir
Herbert Kitchener, became more sympathetic with our endeavors to get
good copy for our journals, and allowed us to return home by the old
trade route of the Eastern Soudan, over which no European had passed
since the revolt of the Eastern tribes in 1883. Unfortunately, the
period for campaigning in the Soudan is in the hottest months in the
year, on the rising of the Nile at the end of July, when the cataracts
begin to be practicable for navigation. At the same time, in spite of
the heat, it is the healthiest period, for the water, in its brown,
muddy, pea s