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the errand a {mall prefent. Hetold me it would be ten © 
days before he returned to the camp; with which laft in- 
telligence I was very well pleafed, as thereby no informa- 
tion could arrive where I was, till I was forgot, or out of 
their power. At ten minutes paft eleven we arrived at Wed ~ 
el Frook, a {mall village clofe upon the Nile. Nothing 
could be more beautiful than the country we paffed that 
day, partly covered with very pleafant woods, and partly in 
lawns, with a few fine fcattered trees. The Nile is a fhort 
quarter of a mile from the village, and is fully half a mile © 
broad. It runs fmooth, and when in inundation, overflows 
the fmall fpace of ground between its prefent banks and 
Wed el Frook. It was now confiderably lower than it had 
been, and was confined within its banks. ; 
On the roth we fet out from Wed ei Frook at half paft five 
an the morning, and about four miles from it came to a 
_ large village, and the tomb of a Fakir, the Nile running all 
the way parallel to our road. At ten o’clock we came to 
another village called Abouafcar; and a little way eaft of 
it, in the river, there is a large ifland confiderably above the 
water, where fhrubs and grafs grow abundantly. The vil- 
lage is placed upon a fmall hill, and there are a great many 
of the fame fize and fhape fcattered about the country on 
the banks of the river, which add greatly to the beauty of 
it, as we had not yet feen fuch fince our leaving-Sennaar. 
At three quarters paft one we came to the village of Kamily. 
The country here is more open, the foil lighter, the grafs 
fhort and thin; it is all laid out, in pafture, and there is 
here plenty of goats, as well as black cattle. This day we 
met a caravan from Egypt, laft from Chendi, who brought 
us word that Ali Bey was depofed, and Mahomet Abou 
4. Dahab 
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