416 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
On the 21ft of April we left Beyla at three o’clock in the 
afternoon, our direction fouth-weft, through a very plea- 
fant, flat country, but without water ; there had been none 
in our way nearer than the river Rahad. About eleven at 
night we alighted in a wood: The place is called Baherie, as 
near as we could compute, nine miles from Beyla. 
On the 22d, at half paft five o'clock in the morning we: 
Jeft Baherie, ftill continuing weftward, and at nine we 
came to the banks of the Rahad. The ford is called Tchir 
Chaira. The river itfelf was now ftanding in pools, the 
water foul, ftinking, and covered with a green mantle ; the 
bottom. foft and muddy, but there was no choice. The water 
at Beyla was fo bad, that we took only as much as was ab- 
folutely neceffary till we arrived at running water from 
the Rahad. We continued half an hour travelling along ~ 
the river atN. W.and W. N. W. till three quarters: paft ten. 
- At noon we again met the river Rahad, which now had 
turned to the weitward of north, and by its fides we pitch- 
ed our tents near the huts of the Arabs, called Cohala, a 
ftationary tribe, that do not live in tents, but are tributary 
to the Mek, and regularly pay ail the taxes and exactions the 
government of Sennaar lays upon them, and from thefe, 
therefore, we were not under any apprehenfion. 
On the 234, at fix o’clock in the morning we left the Co- 
hala, continuing along the river Rahad, which here runs 
a very little tothe eaftward of north. At three o’clock we 
alighted at Kumar, another flation of the fame Arabs of Co- 
hala, on the river fide. This river, here called Rahad, or 
Thunder, winds the moft of any ftream in Abyffinia, It 
‘begins not far from Tchelga, pafies | between Kuara and 
Zz . Sennaar, 
