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Arabs, either from afFe(5lion or fear, joined Yafous in his 

 inarch ; among thefe was Nile Wed Ageeb, prince of the A- 

 rabs ; others taking courage, gathered, and made a iland at 

 the Dender, to try their fortune, and give their cattle time 

 to pafs the Nile, and then, if defeated, they were to follow 

 them. Kafmati Waragna, (as Fit- Auraris) joined by the king, 

 no fooner came up with thefe Arabs on the banks of the 

 Dender, than he fell furioufly upon them, broke and dif- 

 perfed them with a confiderable llaughter ; then leaving 

 Ras Welled de I'Oul with the king, and the main body to 

 encamp, taking advantage of the confuiion the defeat of the 

 Arabs had occalioned, he advanced by a forced march to 

 the Nile, to take a view of the town of Sennaar. 



Baady had aflembled a very large army on the other fide 

 of the river, and was preparing to march out of Sennaar ; 

 but, terrified at the king's approach, the defeat of the Arabs, 

 and the velocity with which the Abyfiinians advanced, he 

 was about to change his refolution, abandon Sennaar, and 

 retire north into Atbara. 



There is a fmall kingdom, or principality, called Dar 

 Fowr, all inhabited by negroes, far in the defert weft of 

 Sennaar, joining with two other petty negro ftates like itfelf, 

 ftill farther weftward, called Sele and Bagirma, while to the 

 eaftward it joins with Kordofan, formerly a province of 

 Dar Fowr, but conquered from it by the Funge. 



Hamis, prince of Dar Fowr, had been baniflied from his 

 country in a late revolution occafioncd by an unfuccefsful 

 war againft Sele and Bagirma, and had fled to Sennaar, 

 where he had been received kindly by Baady, and it was by 



his 



