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continue my route. The pasha's authority seemed established firmly 

 enough for a traveller under his protection to proceed as far as 

 Dongola, and the good understanding between him and the English 

 had induced his officers to afford me every assistance. But at 

 Dongola the Mamalukes held the country on the west bank, and 

 perhaps would not have respected a person bearing a firman from the 

 pasha. However I had often cause to observe that the late appearance 

 of French and English armies in Egypt had taught the inhabitants 

 every where to respect the Franks more than they used to do, although 

 no opportunity seemed ever to be lost of gross cheating and impo- 

 sition of every kind in all the dealings I had with them, not excepting 

 the sheik of Assouan. 



I learnt that at Wawdee Elfee, four days journey above Ibrim by 

 water, there were shellaals, rendering the Nile impassable, and that 

 no boats could be employed on the river between that place and 

 Dongola j but I could obtain no information of the state of the river 

 beyond that town. The names of the villages above Ibrim on the 

 west side are, as they were given to me, Washebbuk, Toshkai, Ar- 

 meenee, Forgunt, Fairey, (one day on horseback) ; Guster, Andhan, 

 Artinoa, Serrey, Decberrey, Ishkeer (two days) ; Sahabbak, Dabba- 

 rosy, Wawdee Elfee, where are the shellaals, and the Nile is impass- 

 able (four by water) ; Wawdel-howja, Owkmee, Serkey mattoo (one 

 day) ; Farkey, Wawdel-walliam, Gintz, Atab, Amarra, Abbeer (two 

 days) ; Tebbel, Artinoa, Koikky, Ibbourdeeky, Sawada (three days) ; 

 Irraoo, Oskey mattoo, Wawroey, Koyey mattoo, Irrew, Saddecfent, 

 Delleeko, Caibaa, Wawdel-mahas, Noweer, Farreet, from which to 

 Dongola are two days ; in all, eight days from Wawdee Elfee. 



In this space they said there were pictures, by which they meant 

 hieroglyphics, on the rocks the whole way, and at a place called Ab- 

 simbal on the west bank, a day and a half from Ibrim, a temple like 

 that at Seboo, and another of the same sort at a place called Farras **, 



* Besides the hieroglyph ical tablets on the rocks between Ibrim and Dongola, the na- 

 tives talked of other temples than those mentioned at Farras and Absimbal, in which were 

 scriptural paintings. The word soorat, or picture, they applied to hieroglyphics; they 

 used it also in speaking of paintings which they compared with those on the walls of Duk- 

 key ; and had pointed them out to me. 



