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fame fide, is Deleb, a large village, with the flirine of a fa- 

 mous faint of that name. The country here is more culti- 

 vated and pleafant than that which we had pafled ; there is 

 a low ridge of hills in the way. At half pad fix in the even- 

 ing of the 2d of Odober we arrived at Wed Baal a Nagga. 

 The village is a very large one, belonging to a Fakir, a faint 

 of the firil confideration in the government of Chendi. All 

 this country, except immediately upon the Nile, is defert 

 and fandy. All along the plain we faw numbers of people 

 digging pits, and taking out the earth, which they boil in 

 large earthen vafes or pans. This is the only way they 

 procure themfelves fait, of which they fend great quanti- 

 ties to Halfaia, where is a market, and from whence it is 

 fent to Sennaar. 



On the 3d, at five o'clock, we left Wed Baal a Nagga, and 

 continued along the Nile, which is about a quarter of a mile 

 oflF; and feven miles further to the N. E. we pafiTed a tomb 

 of the Fakir el Deragi, clofe to the road on our left hand 

 Ail from Wed Baal a Nagga, on both fides of the Nile, is 

 pi6turefque and pleafant, full of verdure, and varied with 

 houfes in diflferent fituations till we come to the tomb of 

 this Fakir. Immediately from this all is bare and defolate^ 

 except one verdant fpot by the fide of the river, -fliaded with 

 fine trees, and full of herbage, and there we alighted at 

 nine o'clock. This place is called Maia ; a few trees appear 

 on the other fide, but beyond thefe all the country is defert. 

 It is inhabited atprefent by the Jaheleen Arabs of Wed el 

 Faal; as they have bad violent fliowers in the high coun- 

 try, and their pools were Hill full of water, they ftaid by 

 them longer than ordinary feeding their cattle. Idris Wed 

 €l Faal, governor of Chendi, nephew to Wed Ageeb, and fon 

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