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have power to carry us off our feet, nor fuffocate us, which 

 was the ordinary cafe. 



Our kind landlords, the Nuba, gave us a hearty welcome, 

 and helped us to wafh our clothes firft, and then to dry them. 

 When I was ftripped naked, they faw the blood ninning 

 from my nofe, and faid, they could not have thought that 

 one fo white as me could have been capable of bleeding. 

 They gave us a piece of roafted hog, which we ate, (except 

 Ifmael and the Mahometans) very much to the fatisfa(5tion 

 of the Nuba. On the other hand, as our camel was lame, 

 we ordered one of our Mahometan fervants to kill it, and 

 take as much of it as would ferve themfelves that night; we 

 alfo provided againft wanting ourfelves the next day. The 

 reft we^ave among our new-acquired acquaintance, the Nu- 

 ba of the village, who did not fail to make a feaft upon it 

 for feveral days after ; and, in recompence for our liberality, 

 they provided us with a large jar of bouza, not very good, 

 indeed, but better than the well-water. This I repaid by 

 tobacco, beads, pepper, and ftibium, which I faw plain- 

 ly was infinitely more than they expedled. Although we 

 had been a good deal furprifed at the fudden and violent 

 effedis of the whirlwind of that day, and feverely felt the 

 bruifes it had occafioned, yet we paffed a very focial and 

 agreeable evening ; thofe only of the Nuba who had been 

 any time at Sennaar fpeak a bad kind of Arabic, as well as 

 their own language. I had feldom, in my life, upon a 

 journey, pafifed a more comfortable night. I had a very 

 neat, clean hut, entirely to myfelf, and a Greek fervant that 

 fat near me. Some of the Nuba watched for us all night, 

 and took care of our beafts and baggage. They fung and 

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