44 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER . 
Or robe, for himfelf. “He is a poor wretch, fays the Shekh 
of Beyla; he has fpent-two years of the king’s revenues 
from Atbara, and nobody has fupported him except Shekh 
Adelan, whofe daughter he married, but he now has 
given him up fince he has fully known him; and, if our 
troubles do not foilow quickly, I fuppofe one of thefe days 
I fhall have him here in his way to Sennaar, never to _re- 
turn; for everybody knows now that it was in hatred to 
him, and for the many faithlefs and bad actions he was 
guilty of, that the Arabs have deftroyed all that part of 
the country, though they have not burnt a ftraw about 
Beyla.” | 
We had again a large and plentiful dinner, and a quan- 
tity of bouza; venifon of feveral different {pecies of the 
antelope or deer-kind, and Guinea-fowls, boiled with rice, 
the beft part of our fare, for the venifon fmelled and taft- 
ed ftrongly of mufk. This was the provifion made by the 
Shekh’s two fons, boys about fourteen or fifteen years old, 
who had got each of them a gun with a match-lock and 
whofe favour I fecured to a very high degree, by giving 
them fome good gunpowder, and plenty of fmall leaden 
bullets. 
In the afternoon we~ walked out to fee the village, 
which is a very pleafant one, fituated upon the bottom of - 
a hill, covered with wood, all the reft flat before it. 
Through this plain there are many large timber trees; 
planted in rows, and joined with high hedges, as in Eu- 
xope, forming inclofures for keeping cattle ; but of thefe 
we faw none, as they. had been moved to the Dender for 
fear of the flies. There is no water at Beyla but what is 
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