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mr Browne's journey. 
the journey, other difficulties remained to be sur- 
mounted. The people of the caravan had dispersed, 
and the natives of Darfur considered him as an 
infidel, in whose face the traces of inferiority of 
species were distinctly marked, and whose colour 
they regarded as the effect of disease, or as the 
consequence of the divine displeasure. He had 
hired a native of Cairo, who had originally been a 
slave-broker, to manage his money-transactions in 
Darfur, where he was informed every species of 
commerce was conducted by simple exchange. This 
person, with whom he had quarrelled on the jour- 
ney, not only robbed him of several valuable ar- 
ticles, but, by the most consummate treachery, in- 
fused suspicions into the mind of the Sultan, pre- 
vented him from being admitted to his presence, 
and procured an order by which he was confined 
to Cobbe, and forced to lodge in the house of 
one of the agents in the machination. Here 
Mr Browne experienced a severe attack of a 
fever and dysentery, by which he was confined for 
a considerable time. Immediately after his con- 
valescence, he proceeded to El-Fasher, in order to 
procure an audience of the king, but was received 
with the most pointed inattention, as he could sel- 
dom procure admission to the levees, and never 
an opportunity of speaking. The effects he had 
brought to Darfur, for commerce and presents, 
were seized, at an arbitrary valuation, for the use 
