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tance from Shekh Shaddly's tomb, where fuch executions 

 could not be performed with decency. 



I MADE him a fmall prefent of fine muflin, which I had 

 bought at Sennaar; and, in the courfe of converfation, he told 

 me that the Moorilh troops from Ras el Feel had burnt Tea- 

 wa.; that the Daveina were with them, and had plundered 

 the Jehaina, and forced Fidele to fly to Beyla. I afked if 

 any Chriilian troops were among them? fufpe(5ling much 

 Ayto Engedan and Ayto Confu. He faid there were none 

 but the Moors of Ras el Feel, the Ganjar horfc of Kuara, 

 and the Arabs Daveina. As I did not wifh to be known in 

 tliis matter, I puihed my inquiries no further : I afked him 

 to provide me with one of his men for fear of the Shukorea 

 Arabs, with which he complied, adding, that he was him- 

 fclf going out to the Shukorea, and would fend a man to 

 Halfaia, where I was toconfider,and acquaint him, whether 

 I was to pafs the Nile at Gerri, and go by the defert of Ba- 

 hiouda and Dongola, or by the more unfrequented way of 

 Chendi, Barbar, and the great defert, the fatigues and dan- 

 gers of which he rhought it impofTible for a European to 

 fufFer, but would give me a letter to Sittina his filler, to 

 whom that country belonged. After Chendi, he afTured me 

 there was no protecSlion to be relied upon but that of 

 Jieaven. This fenfible difcourfe was of great fcrvice ta 

 me, as it fet me all the reft of the journey upon the in- 

 quiry as to the proper fteps for performing this dangerous 

 expedition. 



Gn the iSth, at feven o'clock I left Herbagi, after wri- 

 ting a letter to Adelan, thanking him for his punctuality 

 aiid care of me, and giving the fervant that had come on 



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