DAR-FUR. 
The perennial rains, which fall in Dar-Fa-, 
middle of Septcmber, in 
y both frequent and 
articles. } 
m the middle of June till the 
sereater or lefs quantity, but oo 
violent, fuddenly in ae the fa 
before ry and oo with a ‘ddlightful verdure. foon 
as the rain begins, the proprietor, and all the affiftants he 
can colle&, go ot to the field, re having made holes at 
h other, with a kind of 
wheat 
ater ip 
ren an 
lentils (adis), hae beans (lubi ), and fome others. 
d called at Cairo abd-eleawi, together 
country of Dongola, a by the A 
The tec ia them with milk, and they are feldom caf- 
of the horfes of Soudan are fhod. wo or 
he one above the ether as an ae ‘of food. 
cattle, fed by the tribes in the vicinity of the rivers, amount 
ber, and the tribute paid on their account to 
The beef 
procefs, The ca 
found of all mee and fizes. 
Thofe 
are lefs docile than the ot . ere are 
where = animal abounds more than in Dar-Fir. 
the m 
cruel pe n, of one or b 
the camel, particularly - female, which is fattened for the 
fed for food, and the milk is alfo much 
fetch a higher pric 
carry a greater cada, but lefs capable of enduing hi 
Soudan affords many fine dromedaries; but thofe of Sennaar 
It is — that, in Haba they will 
n hour, 
proce 
he dogs of Dar-T'ar are of fee fame kind with thofe of 
yypt; the common houfe-cat is fearce ; and it is faid there 
or ferocious animals are, principally, the lion, the leopard, 
the hyzena, the wolf, the jackal, and the wild buffalo; but 
they are not commonly feen in the cultivated parts of the 
empire, except the hyzna and the jackal, which come in 
herds of fix, eight, and often more, into the vi 
They 
ES of the uy ba pits i an ] i 
€, when o trapped, ftun him ms clubs, or pierce 
him with their fe ears. The jac ckal is harmlefs, but his hi- 
deous cry founds to a great diftance, the animals al- 
ready enumerated we may add the elephant, the rhinoce- 
ros, the camelopardalis, the hippopotamus, and the croco- 
dile. Elephants are feen in large herds of four or five hun- 
dred, and it is faid that even 2000 of them are fometimes 
feen together. They are hunted on horfeback; the hide’ 
is applied to many ufeful purpofes, and the flefh is much 
uffalo 
eect aan an 
uperior to ivory. 
rhinoceros . a valuable article of trade, and is carried to 
Egypt, where it is fold at a high oe and ufed for fabre 
hilts a The antelope and the 
n 
f government. 
them, ftrip- off the fkin, which they fell, and often eat the 
fiefh; imagining that it generates courage and a warlike dif- 
ps 
an or fimia cynamolgos. 
birds are the aaah eee "Guinea fowl, Bg ptian en 
white-headed Habe green peroqu d 
pa a owls, though not common, and 
on. The wine vulture is exceedingly 
fie aad very long-lived. The fifh in the river Ada confilt. 
of nearly the fame fpecies with thofe of the Nile in Upper 
Egypt: they are caught in wicker-bafkets, and ufed for food. 
The chameleon abounds in Dar-Fiir, and alfo the viverra ich- 
neumon, and almoft all the {pecies of lizard are feen here. 
. ferpents, the coluber _hayé of Egypt, the coluber vipera, 
and the a ina, were the only f{pecies feen by Mr. 
alfo abounds, but they hav es 3 
a dark me and unpleafant tatte. 
ft of Arabia, gryilus, is very common, 
toe roafted and eaten, particularly by the flaves. 
tals, the number ‘found in the diltri¢t vifited by Mr.°. 
is (mall: but to the fouth and weit, thofe of almokt 
ail tea are to be met with. Copper of the fineit’ 
quality, and i iron, are very common either in Far. or its vi« 
cin ae ilver, lead, and tin, abe brought hither from 
Egy Of gold, in the countries to the eaft and weft, the 
eae is abundant. Alabafter ad toe kinds of rr 
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