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from our bean. In what are called gardens are Bamea^ Me- 
luchia^ lentils, [adis^ kidney beans, {luhi^ and fome others. 
The water melon, and that called in Kahira Abd-el-awl^ toge- 
ther with fome other kinds, abound during the wet feafon, and 
indeed before, if they be watered. Sultan Teraub was folicitous 
to procure every thing the gardens of Egypt produce, and 
caufed much care to be taken of the culture of each article 
brought : but the prefent prince does not turn his thoughts to 
that kind of improvement, and little of the efFe£t of his prede- 
ceffor's laudable anxiety is at this moment diftinguifliable. 
There are feveral fpecies of trees, but none that produces fruit 
worth gathering, unlefs it be the Tamarind [Tummara * Hindi), 
The date trees are in very fmall number, and their fruit diminu- 
tive, dry, and deftitute of flavour. That tree feems not indi- 
genous in the country, but to have been tranfported from the 
neighbourhood of the Nile, Dongola, Sennaar, &c. The inha- 
bitants appear not well to underftand the management of this 
ufeful produdion ; and perhaps the great drought will never 
admit of its flourifliing, whatever diligence or care may be 
\ifed to increafe the number or improve the kind. 
ANIMALS. 
S^uadrupeds, 
Of animals the lift found in Dar-Fur with which my own 
knowlege furniflies me, is not very extenfive j nor will it be inte- 
refting fo much as containing any thing new, but as it will fhew 
the peculiar circumftances of the country, as diftinguifhed from 
* Fruit of India. 
Other 
