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have power to carry us off our feet, nor nie iri = us, which 
“-was the ordinary cafe. 
Our kind lantilionde: the Nuba, gave us a hearty welcome, 
and helped us to wath our clothes firft, and then to dry them. 
When I was ftripped naked, they faw the blood running 
from my nofe, and faid, they could not have thought that 
one fo white as me could have been capable of bleeding. 
They gave us a piece of roafted hog, which we ate, (except 
Ifmael and the Mahometans) very much to the fatisfaction 
of the Nuba. On the other hand, as our camel was lame, 
we ordered one of our Mahometan fervants to kill it, and 
take as much of it as would ferve themfelves that night; we 
alfo provided againft wanting ourfelves the next day. The 
reft we gave among our new-acquired acquaintance, the Nu- 
ba of the village, who did not fail to make a feaft upon it 
for feveral days after; and, in recompence for our hberality, 
they provided us with a large jar of bouza, not very good, 
indeed, but better than the well-water. This I repaid by 
tobacco, beads, pepper, and ftibium, which I faw plain- 
ly was infinitely more than they expected. Although we 
had been a good deal furprifed at the fudden and violent 
effects of the whirlwind of that day, and feverely felt the 
bruifes it had occafioned, yet we pafled a very focial and 
agreeable evening; thofe only of the Nuba who had been 
any time at Sennaar fpeak a bad kind of Arabic, as well as 
their own language. I had feldom, in my life, upon a 
journey, paffed a more comfortable night. I had a very 
neat, clean hut, entirely to myfelf, and a Greek fervantithat | 
fat near me. Some of the-Nuba watched for us all night, 
and took care of our beafts and baggage, They fung and 
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