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fand, agrees perfectly with all animals, and here are the 
quarters where I faw-Shekh Adelan the minifter’s horfe, (as _ 
I fuppofe, for their numbers) by far the fineft in the world, 
where in fafety he watched the motion of his fovereign, 
who, fhut up in his capital of Sennaar, could not there main- 
tain one horfe to.oppofe him. | mg 
But however unfavourable this foil may be forthe pro- 
pagation of animals, it contributes very abundantly both te 
_ the nourifhment of man and beaft. It is pofitively faid to 
render three hundred for one, which, however confidently 
advanced,is, Ithink, both from reafon and appearance, a great 
exaggeration. It is all fown with dora, or millet, the prin- 
cipal food of the natives. It produces alfo wheat and rice, 
but thefe at Sennaar are fold by the pound, even in years of 
plenty. The falt made ufe of at Sennaar is all extracted 
from the earth about it, efpecially at Halfaia, fo ios is 
the foil impregnated with this ufeful foflile. 
Asout twelve miles from Sennaar, nearly to the:N. W. is 
a collection of villages called Shaddly, from a great faint, 
who in his time directed Jarge pits to be dug, and plaftered 
clofely within with clay,:into which a quantity of grain was 
put -when it-was.at the cheapeft, and thefe were covered 
up, and plaftered again at.the top, which they call fealing, 
and the hole itfelf matamore. Thefe matamores are in great 
number all over the plain, and, on any profpect of corn 
growing dearer, they are opened, and corn fod at a low 
price both to the town and country. 
To the north of Shaddly, about twenty-four miles, is a- 
nother foundation of this fort, called Wed Aboud, ftill great- 
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