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vermin, all this beauty fuddenly difappears ; bare, fcorched" 

 Nubia returns, and all its terrors of poifonous winds and 

 moving fands, glowing and ventilated with fultry blafts, 

 which are followed by a troop of terrible attendants,, 

 epilepfies, apoplexies, violent fevers, obftinate agues, and 

 lingering, painful dyfenteries, ftill more obilinate and 

 mortal. 



War and treafon feem to be the only employment of 

 this horrid people, whom Heaven has feparated, by almoft 

 impaflable deferts, from the reft of mankind, confining them 

 to an accurfed fpot, feemingly to give them earneft in time 

 of the only other worfe which he has referved to them, 

 for an eternal hereafter. 



The drefs of Sennaar is very fimple. It confifts of a long 

 fliirt of blue Surat cloth called Marowty, which covers, 

 them from the lower part of the neck down to their 

 feet, but does not conceal the neck itfelf; and this is^ 

 the only dillerence between the men's and the women's 

 drefs ; that of the women covers their neck altogether, being 

 buttoned like ours. The men have fomctimes a fafli tied 

 about their middle ; and both men and women go bare- 

 footed in the houfe, even thofe of the better fort of people.. 

 Their floors are covered with PerCan carpets, efpecially the 

 women's apartments. In fair weather, they wear fandals ;, 

 and without doors they ufe a kind of wooden patten, very 

 neatly ornamented with fhclls. In tlie greareft heat at 

 noon, they order buckets of water to be thrown upon thera 

 inilead of bathing. Both men and women anoint them- 

 felves, at lead once a-day, with camels greafe mixed with 

 civet,, which they imagine foftens their lldn, and prcferves- 



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