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tance from» Shekh Shaddly’s tomb, where fuch executions 
could not be performed with decency. 
- Imape him a {mall prefent of fine muflin, which I had 
bought at Sennaar; and, in the courfe of converfation, he told 
me that the Moorifh troops from Ras el Feel had burnt Tea- 
wa; that the Daveina were with them, and had plundered 
the Jehaina, and forced Fidele to fly to Beyla. 1 afked if 
any Chriftian troops were among them? fufpecting much 
Ayto Engedan and Ayto Confu. He faid there were none 
but the Moors of Ras el Feel, the Ganjar horfe of Kuara, 
and the Arabs Daveina. As I did not wifh to be known in 
this matter,I pufhed my inquiries no further: I afked him 
to provide me with one of his men for fear of the Shukorea 
Arabs, with which he complied, adding, that he was him- 
felf going out to the Shukorea, and would fend a man to 
Halfaia, where I was to confider, and acquaint him, whether 
I was to pafs the Nile at Gerri, and go by the defert of Ba- 
hiouda and Dongola, or by the more unfrequented way of 
Chendi, Barbar, and the great defert, the fatigues and dan- 
gers of which he thought it impoflible for a European to 
fuifer, but would give mea letter to Sittina his fifter, to - 
whom that country belonged. After Chendi, he affured me 
there was no protection to be relied upon but that of 
Heaven. This fenfible difcourfe was of great fervice to 
me, as it fet me all the reft of the journey upon the in- 
quiry asto the proper fteps for performing this dangerous 
- expedition. 
On the 18th, at feven o’clock I left Herbagi, after wri- 
ting a letter to Adelan, thanking him for his punctuahty 
and care of me, and giving the fervant that had come on 
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