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fofne fanrly hillocks, where the gi^ound feems to be more' 

 filevated than the reft, Idris the Hybeer told me, that one of 

 the largeft caravans which ever came out of Egypt, under 

 the condu(5t of the Ababde and the Bilhareen Arabs, was 

 there covered with land, to the number of fome thoufands 

 of camels. There are large rocks of grey granite fcattered 

 through this plain. Ac ten o'clock we alighted at a place 

 called trboygi, where are fome trees, to feed, our camels. 

 The trees I have fo often mentioned in our journey thro' 

 the defert are not timber, or tall- growing trees ; there are 

 none of thefe north of Sennaar, except a few at Chendi. 

 The trees 1 fpeak of, which the camels eat, are a kind of 

 dwarf acacia, growing only to the height of bufhes ; and 

 the wood fpoken of likewife is only of the defert kind, ate 

 almoft bare by the camels- There are fome high trees, in-- 

 deed, on the banks of the Nile. At half paft one o'clock 

 we left Erboygi, and came to a large wood of doom (Palma 

 Guciofera). Here, for the firft time, we faw a flirub which 

 very much refembled Spanifh broom. The whole ground 

 is dead fand, with fome rocks of reddiili granite.. Exactly 

 at five o'clock we alighted in the wood, after having tra- 

 velled a moderate pace,. The place is called El Cowie, and' 

 is a ftation of the Bilhareen in the fummer months ; but 

 thefe people were now eaft of us, three days journey, towards 

 the Red Sea, where the rains had fallen, and there was plen- 

 ty of pafture. At forty minutes pail twelve we left Ei 

 Cowie, and at five o'clock in the evening alighted in a wood, 

 called Terfowey, full of trees and grafs. The trees are the 

 talleft and largeil we had feen fince leaving the Nile. We 

 had this day enjoyed, as it were, a holiday, free from the 

 terrors of the fand, or dreadful influence of the fimoom. 

 Ihis poifonous wind had made feveral attempts to prevail 



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