CHAPTER VII. 
mr Browne's journey. 
Departure from Assiut. — Arrival and residence in Darfur. — 
Description of that Country.- — Begarmee — Bergoo. — D<iF~ 
kulla. — Donga — The Bahr-el-Abiach 
While Mr Park, with so much intrepidity and per- 
severance, was attempting to explore Western Afri- 
ca, according to the plan of the African Associa- 
tion, a private traveller, Mr W. G. Browne, urged 
by curiosity, and the spirit of adventure, endea- 
voured to traverse that continent from E. to W. 
and penetrated into Darfur, the name of which, 
had been mentioned to Ledyard, but which was en- 
tirely unknown to Europeans. The natives of Dar- 
fur, in Egypt, are obsequious in their behaviour 
even towards the Christians of that country, and 
were always represented as more tolerant to unbe- 
lievers than other Mahometans. Mr Browne ima- 
gined, therefore, that when he should arrive in that 
country, the choice of various routes would be in 
his power, the length of the journey would be com- 
pensated by the superior acquaintance which it 
