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•On the 12th, at ten minutes paft fix we fet out from Sk 

 el Bet, and a few minutes after came to a village called A- 

 geda, and five miles further to another, whofe name is U- 

 Iheta. At half pail nine we palled a third village, and at 

 half after eleven encamped near a pool of water, called Wed 

 Hydar, or the River of the Lion. All the way from Wed 

 el fumbel to this village we were much tormented with 

 the fly, the very noife of which put our camels in fuch a 

 •fright that they ran violently into the thickeft trees and 

 buihes, endeavouring to bruih olf iheir loads. Thefe flies 

 do not bite at night, nor in the cool of the morning. We 

 were freed from this difagreeable companion at Wed Hydar, 

 and were troubled with it no more. 



At four o'clock we again fet out through an extenfive 

 plain, quite deltuure of wood, and all fown with dora, and 

 about five miles further we encamped at a place named 

 Shwyb, where there is a Shekh called Welled Abou Halilin. 

 While at Abou Hallan, we were iurprifed with a violent 

 ftorm of rain and wind, accompanied with great flalhcs of 

 lightning. This ftorm being blown over, we proceeded to 

 a village called Imfurt. At one mile and a half further we 

 joined the river. 1 he Nile here is in extreuie beauty, and 

 winds confiderably; it is broader than at I'^ennaar, the banks 

 flat, and quite covered with acacia and other trees in tuU 

 bloom. 7he tlvick parts of this wood were ftored with 

 great numbers of ant-flopes, while the open places were co- 

 vered v;ith large Clocks of cattle belonging to the Arabs 

 Refaa, who were returning fiom the lands to their paflures 

 to the fouthward. Large (locks of ftorks, cranes, and a va- 

 riety of other birds, were Icatteied throughout the plaii\, 

 .2 which 



