526 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER. 
fame fide, is Deleb, a large village, with the fhrine ofa re a 
mous faint of that name. | The country here is more culti- 
vated and pleafant than that which we had paffed; there is 
_a low ridge of hills inthe way. At half paft fix in the even- 
ing of the 2d of OG@ober we arrived. at Wed Baal a Nagga. 
The village is a very large one, belonging to a Fakir, a faint 
of the firft confideration in the government'of Chendi. All 
this country, except immediately upon the Nile, is defert 
and fandy.. All along the. plain we faw numbers of people 
digging pits, and taking out the earth, which they boil in 
large earthen vafes or pans. This is. the only: way they 
procure themielves falt, of which they fend great quanti- 
ties to Halfaia, where isa market, and, from eres it is 
ent to Sennaar. 3 ' 
On the 3d, at five o’clock, we left Wed Baal a Nagga, and 
continued along the Nile, which is about a quarter of a mile 
off; and feven miles further to the N. E. we pafled a tomb 
of the Fakir el Deragi, clofe to the road on our left hand, 
All from Wed Baal a Nagga, on both fides of the Nile, is 
picturefque and pleafant, full of verdure, and varied with 
thoufes in different fituations till we come to the tomb of 
this Fakir. Immediately from this all is bare and defolate, 
except one verdant {pot by the fide of the river, fhaded with 
fine trees, and full of herbage, and. there» we alighted at 
nine o’clock. This place is called Maia; a few trees appear 
on the other fide, but beyond thefe all-the country is defert. 
It is inhabited at prefent by the Jaheleen. Arabs -of Wed el 
Faal; as they have had violent fhowers.in the -high coun- 
‘try, and their pools were ftill full of water, they ftaid by 
them longer than ordinary feeding their cattle.. Idris -Wed 
el Faal, governor of Chendi, nephew to Wed Ageceb, and fon | 
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