I40 TRAVELS IN AFRICA, 
The Beys now refident here, are, Haffan el Gtddawiy Achmet 
el Uall^ Ofman Bey Hajfan^ and another, whofe name I did not 
learn. They are very poor and dejeded, in confequence of 
their long exclufion from the government. Haflan Bey has 
about thirty Mamliiks with him ; the reft only eight or ten 
each. Their whole revenues are drawn from the country near 
Ifna and Affuan, which is but unprodudive. Pafled one night 
at Ifna, and thence proceeded towards Edfu. 
The people here have a fuperftition concerning crocodiles 
fimilar to that entertained in the Weft Indies ; they fay there is 
a king of them, who refides near Ifna, and who has ears, but 
no tail ; and he poflefles an uncommon regal quality, that of 
doing no harm (" the king can do no wrong"). Some are 
bold enough to alfert that they have feen him. 
28th OCc. Near a village called Hillal, obferved reliques of 
an antient town ; part of two fmall Egyptian temples, and a 
ftatue of lefs than the human fize, in a kneeling pofture, but 
broken off above the knees ; the feet and legs remaining entire. 
The place has been furrounded by a thick wall of unburned 
brick, but of what date it is now impoffible to determine. 
The following day, a little fhower fell in the morning ; the 
only inftance I met with of rain in Upper Egypt. Arrived 
at Edfu, and infpeded a gate or portico, and a fmall Egyptian 
temple adjoining. 
30th. 
