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are very valuable, and afford a ready price everywhere. The 
inhabitants being little acquainted with the ufe of fire-arms, 
the fmaller game, of the deer kind, are not much molefted,. 
unlefs by the wild Shangalla, who make ufe of bows and 
arrows, fo-that thefe animals are increafed beyond imagi- 
nation. 
Ras ex Feex confifted once of thirty-nine villages. All 
the Arabs of Atbara reforted to them with butter, honey, 
horfes, gold, and many other commodities ; and the Shekh 
of Atbara, living upon the frontier of Sennaar, entertained a 
conftant good correfpondence with the Shekh of Ras el Feel, 
to whom he fent yearly a Dongola horfe, two razors, and 
two dogs. The Shekh of Ras el Feel, in return, gave him a 
mule and a female flave; and the effect of this intercourfe 
was to keep all the intermediate Arabs in their duty. 
SincE the expedition of Yafous II: againft Sennaar, no 
peace has ever fubfifted between the two {tates ; on the con- 
trary, all the Arabs that afflifted the king, and were defeat- 
ed with him, pay tribute no longer to Sennaar, but live on 
the frontiers of Abyflinia, and are protected there. The 
two chiefs of Atbara, and Ras el Feel, underftand one ano-. 
ther perfectly, and give the Arabs no trouble ; and, if they 
pay their rent to either, it is divided between beth. It was 
through the means of thefe Arabs the king of Abyfiinia’s 
army was furnifhed, as we have feen, with heavy horfes ;. 
and it was in confequence of my depending on this friend- 
fhip with the Shekh of Teawa, that I attempted going thro’ 
that province to Sennaar, 
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