CHAPTER VIL 
MR Browne's journey. 
Departure from Assiut. — Arrival and residence in Harfur.-—- 
Description of that Country. — Begarmee. — Bergoo, — Dar- 
kulla, — Donga, — The Bahr-el-Abiad, 
While Mr Park, with so much intrepidity and 
perseverance, was attempting to explore Western 
Africa, according to the plan of the African As- 
sociation, a private traveller, Mr W. G. Browne, 
urged by curiosity, and the spirit of adventure, 
endeavoured to traverse that continent from E. 
to W. and penetrated into Darfur, the name of 
which had been mentioned to Ledyard, but which 
was entirely unknown to Europeans. The na- 
tives of Darfur, in Egypt, are obsequious in their 
behaviour, even towards the Christians of that 
country, and were always represented as more 
tolerant to unbelievers than other Mahometans. 
Mr Browne imagined, therefore, that when he 
should arrive in that country, the choice of va- 
rious routes would be in his power, the length of 
the journey would be compensated by the supe- 
rior acquaintance which it would enable him to 
