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got from deep wells. Large plantations of Indian corn 
are everywhere about the town. The inhabitants are in con- 
tinual apprehenfion from the Arabs Daveina at Sim Sim, 
about 40 miles fouth-eaft from them; and from: another 
powerful race called Wed abd el Gin, i. ¢. Son of the flaves of 
the Devil, who live to the fouth-weft of them, between the 
Dender and the Nile. Beyla is another frontier town of 
Sennaar, on the fide of Sim Sim; and between Teawa and 
this, on the Sennaar fide, and Ras el Feel, Nara, and Tchelga, 
upon the Abyflinian fide, all is defert and wafte, the Arabs 
only fuffering the water'to remain there without villages 
near it, that they and their flocks may come at certain: 
_ feafons while the grafs grows, and the pools or fprings fill 
_elfewhere: . ; 
AttTuoucu I went early to bed with full determination 
to fet out by day-break, yet I found it was impofflible to put 
' my defign in execution, or get from the hands of our kind 
landlord. One of our girbas feemed to fail, and needed to 
be repaired. Nothing good, as he truly faid, could come’ 
from the Shekh of Atbara.. A violent difpute had arifen in. 
the evening, after I was gone to bed, over their. bouza, be- 
tween the king’s fervant and that of Shekh Adelan. It was: 
about dividing their fees which they-had received from Shekh 
Fidele. This was carried a great length, and it was at lafta- 
greed that it fhould be determined by the Shekh of Beyla in: 
the morning, when both of them, as might be fuppofed; 
- fhould have cooler heads. For my part, | took no thought 
or concern about it, as no circumftance of its.origin had 
been natified tome; but it took up fo much of our time,. 
that.it was after dinner. before we. were ready. | 
