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been carried the same evening to Channo, the next 

 morning I was astonished at seeing the house beset 

 by a number of my Hy Soumaulee friends, who, 

 although they were glad to see me, appeared to 

 be not at all satisfied with something or other. 



As none of the Tajourah people had come with 

 them, I sent for an Islam sheik, Hacljji Abdullah, 

 who lived in the next house, to come and interpret 

 between us. This man, by-the-by, came from Ber- 

 berah, on the banks of the Nile, in Upper Egypt, 

 yet he made himself perfectly understood in the 

 Affah language ; and I expect, therefore, that some 

 ethnological connexion will be found to exist 

 between the people of Dongola and the Dankalli 

 tribes, although I understand that this has been 

 denied by some modern travellers, on the ground, 

 singularly enough, of the total distinctness between 

 their two languages. 



I was not much surprised to learn that the 

 cause of complaint among the Hy Soumaulee was, 

 that Ohmed Mahomed, who had received from the 

 British Embassy one hundred and twenty dollars, 

 to pay them their wages, at the rate of four dollars 

 each man, had thought proper to give them no 

 more than one each, and a small coarse cotton 

 cloth not the value of half a dollar. Of course the 

 Hy Soumaulee knew nothing of the British 

 Embassy; it was to me they looked for the payment 

 of their stipulated wages, and which, for the latter 

 part of our journey, T had always stated would be 



