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Our voyage, once commenced, was continued with little 
remarkable, except the violent heat. We returned by the only 
caravan route, Bir el malah^ Leghea, Selime^ Sheb^ and Elwah. 
Our provifions were indifferent, and in fmall quantity. The 
camel-drivers regaled themfelves with the flefh of thofe animals, 
when they chanced to be difabled on the road. When we came 
to Beins we were met by a Cafhef, who welcomed the Jelabs 
with an exhibition of fire works ; on this occafion he treats the 
chief merchants with coffee, and prefents to each a heniflo of 
coarfe cloth, worth about a guinea, expelling, however, in 
return, a flave from each, worth at leaft ten guineas. When I 
arrived at Affiut it was four months fince I had eaten of animal 
food. The hard living, heat, and fatigue, occafioned a diarrhea 
which much weakened me ; but before leaving Affiut, where I 
paffed about twenty days, it was confiderably abated. 
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