re TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
tremity of the rains, was a place properly .chofen: for this 
purpofe by the Arab prince before the conqueft of the 
Funge, (for his troops there cut them off, either from the 
fands, or the fertile country, as he pleafed), yet many of 
them might have remained behind at Shaddly, and to the 
weftward, free from the terror of the fly, and confequently 
without any neceflity of advancing fo far north as Gerri,, 
and there fubjecting themfelves to contribution. 
In this extenfive plain, near Shaddly, arife two mountain=. 
ous diftricts, the one called Jibbel Moia, or the Mountain of 
Water, which is a ridge of confiderable hills nearly of the 
fame height, clofely united; and the other Jibbel Segud,, 
or the Cold Mountain; a broken ridge compofed of parts, 
fome high and fome low, without any regular form, Both 
thefe enjoy a fine climate, and are full of inhabitants, but of 
no confiderable extent. They ferve for a protection to the: 
Daheera, or farms of Shaddly and Wed Aboud. . They are 
alfo fortteflés in the-way of the Arabs, to detain and forcé: 
them to payment in their flight from the cultivated coun-. 
try and'rains to.the dry lands of Atbara. Each of thefe dif 
tricts is governed by the defcendant of their ancient and na-. 
tive princes, who. long refifted all the power. of the Arabs; 
having both horfe and‘foot. They continued to be Pagans: 
nll the conqueft of the Funge. Bloody and unnatural fa- 
crifices were faid-to have been in ufe in thefe mountainous. 
ftates, with horrid circumftances of cruelty,,till Abdeleader,, 
fon of Amru, the third of the kings. of Sennaar, about the. 
year 1554; befieged: firft: the one-and then the other of thefe: 
princes in their mountain, and forced them to furrender ; 
and, having faftened a. chain of gold to each. of their ears,, 
he. 
