408 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
‘CHAP. VI. | Yo BOs 
Arrival at Beyla—Friendly Reception there, and after, amongh the Nu- 
ba—Arrival at Sennaar. 
§ 7HEN we got a few miles into the plain, my fervant 
Y= delivered me a meflage from the Moullah, that he 
would join us the next day at Beyla; that we were not to 
truft to the king’s fervant in any thing, but entirely tothat 
of the Shekh Adelan; and if thefe two had any difpute 
together, to take no fhare in it, but leave them to fettle it 
between themfelves ; that, upon no account whatever, we 
fhould fuffer any companions to join us upon the road to 
Beyla, but drive them off by harth words, beat them if they 
did not go away, and, if they {till perfifted, to fhoot them, 
and make our way good by force; that between Teawa and — 
Beyla was a place, the inhabitants of which had withdrawn 
themfelves from their allegiance to the king of Sennaar,, 
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