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the errand a fmall prefent. He told me it would be ten 

 days before he returned to the camp ; with which lafljn- 

 telligence I was very well pieafed, as thereby no informa- 

 tion could arrive where I was, till I was forgot, or out of 

 their power. At ten minutes paft eleven we arrived at Wed 

 ql Frook, a fmall village clofe upon the Nile. Nothing 

 could be more beautiful than the country we pafTed that 

 day, partly covered with very pleafant woods, and partly in 

 lawns, with a few fine fcattered trees. The Nile is a fliort 

 quarter of a mile from the village, and is fully half a mile 

 broad. It runs fmooth, and when in inundation, overflows 

 the fmall fpace of ground between its prefent banks and 

 Wed el Frook. It was now conliderably lower than it had 

 been, and was confined within its banks. 



On the 19th we fet out from Wed el Frook at half pafl five 

 in the morning, and about four miles from it came to a 

 large village, and the tomb of a Fakir, the Nile running all 

 the way parallel to our road. At ten o'clock we came to 

 another village called Abouafcar ; and a little way ea(l of 

 it, in the river, there is a large ifland confiderably above the 

 water, where flirubs and grafs grow abundantly. The vil- 

 lage is placed upon a fmall hill, and there are a great many 

 of the fame fize and fhape fcattered about the country on 

 the banks of the river, which add greatly to the beauty of 

 it, as we had not yet feen fuch fmce our leaving Sennaar. 

 At three quarters pafl one we came to the village of Kamily. 

 The country here is more open, the foil lighter, the grafs 

 fhort and thin ; it is all laid out in pafture, and there is 

 here plenty of goats, as well as black cattle. This day we 

 met a caravan from Egypt, lafl from Chendi, who brought 

 IW word that AU Bey was depofed, and Mahomet Abou 

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