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M^- LUCAS'S 
Kibeer, or the Great Nile, and at others, Neel il Abeed, or the 
imhammed. Neo;ros, thc rifc and termination are unknown, but 
and C ' ' 
Ben Aui. the courfc is frorn Eaft to AVeft. So great is the rapidity with 
which it traverfes the Empire of Cafnna, that no velTel can afcend 
its ftream ; and fuch is th^ want of fkill, or fuch the abfence of 
imhammed. commercial inducements among the inhabitants of its borders, 
that even w^^b the current, neither vefiels nor boats are feen to 
navigate. In one place, indeed, the Traveller finds accommoda- 
tions for the paffage of himfelf and of his goods ; but even there, 
imhammcd. tliougli the ferrymen, by the indulgence of the Sultan of Caflina, 
are exempted from all taxes, the boat which conveys the mer- 
chandize is nothing more than an ill-conftruded raft ; for the 
planks are failened to the timbers with ropes, and the feams are 
clofed both within and without, by a plaifter of tough clay, of 
which a large provifion is always carried on the raft for the pur- 
pofe of excluding the ilream wherever its entrance is obferved, 
imhammed. The dcptli of the river at the place of paffage, which is more 
than a hundred miles to the South of the City of Cafhna, the 
capital of the empire of that name, is eftimated at twenty-three 
or twenty-four feet Englifh/'' 
Its 
* Its depth is from ten to twelve peeks, each of which is twenty-feven inches. 
The She reef Imhammed. 
