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rived once in the fands, they were quiet during the rains, 
having paid their paflagé northward, and fo they were after- 
wards, for the fame reafon, when they came again to their 
own ftation, fouthward, when thofe rains had ceafed. . __ 
Ir may be afked reafonably, What does the government 
ef Sennaar do with that immenfe number of camels which 
they receive from all thofe tribes of Arabs in their paflage 
by Sennaar? To this I anfwer, That all this tribute is not 
paid in kind. The different tribes poflefling fo many ca- 
mels, or fo many other cattle, have a quantum laid upon 
them at an average value. This is paid in gold, or in 
flaves, the reft in kind; fo. many for the maintenance of the 
king and government ; for thereis no flefh commonly ufed 
at Sennaar in the markets but that of camels. The refidue 
is bought by the merchants. of Dongola, and fent into, 
Egypt, where they fupply that great confumption of 
thefe animals. made every year by the caravans going to 
Mecca. 
One thing had made a very ftrong impreffion on me;, 
which was the contemptuous manner in which Adelan ex- 
prefled himfelf as to his fovereign. I was fatisfied that, 
with fome-addrefs, I could keep myfelf in favour with either- 
of them; but in the terms they then were, or were very. 
foon to be, I could not but fear I was likely to fall into. trou- 
ble between the two.. 
Tue next morning, after I came home from Aira, I was: 
agreeably furprifed by a vifit from Hagi Belal, to.whom I 
had been recommended by Metical Aga, and to whom Ibra- 
him Seraff, the Englith broker at Jidda, had addrefled me for’ 
: any 
