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have you been travelling about?” adds one of the others. 
“ Near twenty years,” faid L—“ You muft be very young, 
fays the king, to have committed fo many fins, and fo 
early ; they muft all have been with women ?”?——“* Part of 
them, I fuppofe, were, replied I; but I did not fay that I 
was one of thofe who travelled on account of their fins, 
but that there were fome Dervifhes that did fo on account 
of their vows, and fome to learn wifdom.” He now made a 
fign, and a flave brought a cufhion, which I would have 
refufed, but he forced me to fit down upon it. 
1 rounp afterwards who the three men were who had 
joined in our converfation ; the firft was Ali Mogrebi, a na- 
_tive of Morocco, who was Cadi, or chief judge at Sennaar, 
and was then fallen into difgrace with the two brothers, 
MahometAbou Kalec, governor of Kordofan,and Shekh Ade- 
lan, prime minifter at Sennaar, then encamped at Aira at the 
head of the horfe and Nuba, levying the tax upon the Arabs 
as they went down, out of the limits of the rains, into the 
fandy countries below Atbara to protect their cattle from 
the fly. Another of thefe three was Cadi of Kordofan, in the 
antereft of Mahomet Abou Kalec, and fpy upon the king. 
- The third was a faint in the neighbourhood, confervator 
of a large extent of ground, where great crops of dora not 
only grow, but when threthed out are likewife kept in large 
excavations called Matamores ; the place they call Shaddly. 
This man was ‘efteemed another Jofeph among the Funge, 
who accumulated grain in years of plenty, that he might 
diftribute it at {mall prices among the poor when {fcarcity 
came.. He was held in very great reverence in the neigh- 
bourhood of Sennaar. . 
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