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vermin, allthis beauty fuddenly difappears; bare, fcorched 
Nubia returns, and all its terrors of poifonous winds and 
moving fands, glowing and ventilated with fultry blafts, 
which are followed by a troop of terrible attendants, 
epilepfies, apoplexies, violent fevers, obftinate, agues, and 
lingering, painful dyfenteries, till more obftinate and 
mortal. MAE: WMP N eiunwsd: ay ca PRI 
War and‘treafon feem to be the only employment of 
this horrid people, whom Heaven has feparated, by almoft 
impaflable deferts, from the reft of mankind, confining them 
to an accurfed {pot, feemingly to give them earneft in time 
of the only other worfe which he has referved to them 
for an eternal hereafter. > 
Tue drefs of Sennaar is very fimple. It confifts of a long 
fhirt of blue Surat cloth called Marowty, which covers 
them from the lower part of the neck down to their 
feet, but does not conceal the neck itfelf; and this is 
the only difference. between the men’s and the women’s 
drefs; that of the women covers their neck altogether, being 
buttoned like ours. The men have fometimes a fafh tied 
about their middle; and both men and women go bare- 
footed in the houfe, even thofe of the better fort of people. 
Their foors are covered with Perfiran carpets, efpecially the 
women’s apartments. In fair weather, they wear fandals ; 
and without doors they, ufe a kind of wooden patten, very _ 
neatly ornamented with fhells. In the greateft heat at 
noon, they order buckets of water to be thrown upon them 
inflead of bathing. Both men and, women anoint them- 
felves, at leaft once a-day, with camels greafe mixed with 
civet, which they imagine foftens their fkin, and preferves, 
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