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- fome fandy hillocks, where the ground feems to be more- 
elevated than the reft, Idris the Hybeer told me, that one of” 
the largeft caravans which ever came out of Egypt, under’ 
the conduct of the Ababdé: and the Bifhareen Arabs, was 
there covered with fand;: to the number of fome thoufands - 
of camels. There are large rocks of grey granite fcattered < 
through -this:plain.. At ten:o’clock we alighted-at.a place» 
called Krboygi, where. are fome trees, to-feed. our camels. - 
The trees I have fo often mentioned in- our journey thro’ 
the defert are not.timber, or tall-growing. trees ;.there are 
none of thefe north of Sennaar,-except a few at Chendi. 
The trees I {peak of, which the camels eat, are a kind of» 
dwarf acacia, growing only:to the height of bufhes ; and | 
the wood fpoken of likewife is only of the defert kind, ate. 
almoft bare by the camels.. There.are.fome high-trees, in- 
deed, on the banks .of the Nile. At half paft one: o’clock: - 
we left Erboygi, and.came:to a large wood of doom (Palma 
cuciofera).. Here; for the firft time, .we faw a fhrub which. 
very much refembled Spanifh broom. The.whole ground: 
is dead fand, with fome rocks of reddifh’ granite... Exactly. 
at five o’clock.we alighted in. the:wood, after having tra-- 
velled a moderate pace... The place is called El Cowie, and: 
is a ftation-of.the Bifhareen.in the fummmer months; but. _ 
thefe people were now eaft of us, three days journey, towards. 
the Red Sea, where the rains had fallen, andthere was plen- 
ty. of pafture. Ac forty minutes. paft twelve. we. left El: 
Gowie, and at five o’clock in the evening alighted in a wood, . 
called Terfowey, full of trees and grafs. The trees are the: 
talleft and largeft:we had feen fince leaving;the Nile.. We: 
had this day enjoyed, .as it were, a. holiday, free from the 
terrors of the fand, or dreadful influence of the fimoom. . 
Ehis poifonous wind had made.feveral attempts to prevail 
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