THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. Gtf 



Arabs, either from" affection' or fear, joined Yafous in his 

 inarch ; among thefe was Nile Wed Ageeb, prince of the A- 

 rabs ; others taking courage, gathered, and made a (land at 

 the Dender, to try their fortune, and give their cattle time 

 to pafs the Nile, and then, if defeated, they were to follow 

 them. Kafmati Waragna, (as Fit- Auraris) joined by the king, . 

 no fooner came up with thefe Arabs on the banks of the ; 

 Dender, than he fell furioufly upon them, broke and dif- 

 perfed them with a confiderable flaughter ; then leaving 

 Ras Welled de TOul with the king, and the main body to 

 encamp, taking advantage of the confufion the defeat of the 

 Arabs had occafioned, he advanced by a forced march to 

 the Nile, to take a view of. the town of Sennaar. 



Baady had afTembled a very large army on the other nde 

 of the river, and was preparing to march out of Sennaar ; 

 but, terrified at the king's approach,- the defeat of the Arabs, 

 and the velocity with which the Abyflinians advanced, he 

 was about to change his refolution, abandomSennaar, and; 

 retire north into Atbara. 



There is a fmall kingdom, or principality, called Dar 

 Fowr, all inhabited by negroes, far in the. defert weft of 

 Sennaar, joining with two-other petty negro Hates like itfelfj 

 Hill farther weftward, called Sele and Bagirma, while to the 

 eaftward it joins with Kordofan, formerly a province of 

 Dar Fowr, but conquered from it by the.Funge. . 



Hamis, prince of Dar Fowr, had' been banifhed from his 

 country in a late revolution occaiioned by an unfuccefsful 

 war againft Sele and Bagirma, and had fled to Sennaar, 

 where he had been received kindly by Baady, and it was by 



