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CHAP. X. 



yourney from Sennaar to Chendu\ 



TTFR leaving Sennaar I was overtaken on the road by 

 a black Have, who at firft gave me feme appi^^hen- 

 fion, as I was alone with only one Barbarian, a Nubian !isr- 

 vaii., by the fide of ray camel, and was going flowly^ Up, 

 on mquiry I found him to be fent from Hagi Belal, with 

 a b?.i]cet containing fome green tea and fugar, and four bot- 

 tles of rack, in return for my letter. I fent back the mef- 

 fenger, and gave the care of the bafket to my own fervant; 

 and, about ten o'clock in the evening of the 5th of Septem- 

 ber, we all met together joyfully at Soliman. 



Bepore my departure from Sennaar I had prevailed on 

 a Fakir, or Mahometan monk, fervant to Adelan, to write a 



istter 



