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" The Arabs of tlie Deferts, like the Tartars, h a\ e ail inviii"" 
cible attachment to Liberty : no arts will reconcile them to imx 
-Other life, or form of government, however modified. This is a 
chara6ler given me here of the Arabs- 
" It is fmgular that the Arab Language has no word for Li- 
Lertv, altliOLiHi it has for Slaves. 
The Arabs, like the New Zealanders, engage w^th a long 
Urong fpear. 
" I have made the heft inquiries I have been able, fmce I have 
been here, of the nature of the country before me ; of Sennar, 
Darfoor, Wangara, of Nubia, Abyffinia, of thofe named, or un- 
known by name. I fliould have been happy to have fent you 
better information of thofe places than I am yet able to do. It 
will appear very lingular to you in England, that we in Egypt 
are fo ignorant of countries which we annually vifit: the Egyp- 
tians know as little of Geography as the generality of the French ; 
and hke them, fmg, dance, and traffic without it. 
" I have the heft alTurances of a certain and fafe conduQ: by 
the return of the caravan that is arrived from Sennar ; and Mr. 
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