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exceedingly beautiful, nor the lefs intcrefting, that, though 
the change in their fituation could. not be very important, 
their countenances were marked with défpondency. To 
thefe fucceeded five hundred oxen and two hundred large 
_ eamels; the whole proceflion was clofed by eighty horfes, 
and many articles of lefs value borne by flaves. Shouts rent 
the air of, Long live El Sultan Abd-el- rachman el rafhid ! 
May God render him always victorious ! 
A fhort time after, Mr. Brown caufed a petition to be 
drawn up, which was prefented by Ali-el-Chatib to the Sul- 
tan, in which he ftated his fufferings, requefted payment of 
what yet remained due to him, and permiflion to proceed on 
his journey to Kordofan. Though the perfon who prefented 
it was a man of confiderable weight, no anfwer was given. 
He therefore followed it up by a vifit in perfon, which he 
had refolved fhould be his laft. His arrival was no fooner 
known than he was directed to attend fome fick perfon, as 
he had feveral times done before. This he pofftively refufed, 
and it was many days before he could be admitted at court. 
On the 11th of December 1795, however, he accompanied 
the Chatib to the monarch’s prefence, and briefly {tated what 
he came to requeft; which the former feconded, though not 
with the zeal Mr. Brown wifhed, To his demand of permif- 
fion to travel, no anfwer was returned. But the generous 
and hofpitable monarch, who had received from him the 
value of 750 piaflres in goods, though his claim was well 
fupported, gave him only twenty meagre oxen, in value about 
120. piattres ! The ftate of his purfe would not permit him 
to refufe even this mean fupply; and he bade adieu to El 
Father, as he hoped, for ever. 
Having applied the value of the oxen to prepapations for 
his journey to Egypt, the report of the caravan’s departure 
growing daily ftronger, he loft no time in joining the Chabir, 
who was then encamped at Le Haimer, (3d March 1796,) a 
fmall village about three days journey north of Cobbé, where 
there was a tolerable fupply of wah ss but no other requifite 
for living. 
fe(Mr. Brown arrived at Le Haimer about a month before 
Ramadan; and it was not till the fixth day of E] Hedge, the 
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