504 TRAVELS — DISCOVER 
On the tath,at ten minutes paft fix we fer out _ from-Sik 
el Bet, and a few minutes after came to a village called A- 
geda, and five:miles further to another, whofe name is U- 
fheta. At half paft nine we paffed a third village, and at 
half after eleven encamped near a pool of water, called Wed 
Hydar, or the River of the Lion. All the way from Wed _ 
el Tumbel to this village we were much tormented with 
the fly, the very noife of which put our camels in fuch a 
fright that they ran violently into the thickeft trees and ~ 
buthes, endeavouring to bruh off their loads. Thefe flies 
do not bite at night, nor in the cool of the morning. We 
were freed from this difagreeable companion at ies Hydar, 
and were troubled with it no more. : 
Art four o’clock we -ieale fet out through an extenfive 
plain, quite deftitute of wood, and all fown with dora, and 
about five mules further we encamped at a place named 
Shwyb, where there is a Shekh called Welled Abou Haffan. 
While at Abou Haffan, we were furprifed with ‘a violent 
ftorm of rain and wind, accompanied with great flafhes of 
lightning. ‘This ftorm being blown over, we proceeded to 
a village called Imfurt. At one mile and a half further we 
joined the river. The Nile here is in extreme beauty, and 
winds confiderably; it is broader than at Sennaar, the banks 
flat, and quite:covered with acacia and other trees in full 
bloom. The thick parts of this wood were ftored with 
great numbers of antelopes, while the open places were co- 
vered with large flocks of cattle belonging to the Arabs 
Refaa, who were returning from the fands to their paftures 
to the fouthward. Large flocks of ftorks, cranes, and a va~ 
xiety of other birds, were fcattered ease sn the plain, 
: 2 which 
