THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 4ay 
any money I fhould need at Sennaar. He welcomed me 
with great kindnefs, and repeated teftimonies of joy and 
wonder at my fafe arrival: He had been down in Atbara 
at Gerri, or fome villages near it, with merchandize, and 
had not yet feen the king fince-he came home, but gave 
me the very wort defcription poflible of the country, info- 
much that there feemed to be not a fpot, but the one I then, 
ftood on, in which I was not in imminent danger of deftruc- 
tion, ffom a variety of independent caufes, which it feemed 
not poflibly in my power to avoid. He fent me in the even- 
ing fome refref{hments, which I had long been unaccuftom- 
ed to; fome tea, excellent ‘coffee, fome honey and brown 
fugar, feveral bottles of rack, likewife nutmegs, cinnamon, 
ginger, and fome very good dates. of the dry kind. which: 
he had cin from isiisnieg 
Piker BELAE was a native of Morocco; He had been ar 
€airo, and alfo at Jidda and} Mocha. He knew the Englifh: 
well, and profeffed himfelf both obliged and attached to: 
‘them. It was fome days before I ventured to fpeak to him: 
upon money bufinefs, or upon any probability of finding: 
affliftgnce here at Sennaar: He gave me little hopes of the 
latter, repeating to me what I very well knew about the dif- 
agreement of the king and Adelan, He feemed toplace all 
his expectations, and thofe were but faint ones, in the co= 
ming of Shekh Abou Kalec from Kordofan. He faid, no-. 
thing could be expected from Shekh Adelan without going. 
to bier sisal for Heat he is i al never truft himfelf in Sennaar,, 
the moment in affembled his troops aie ts she town. 
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