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Browne's journey. 
Browne discovered, that, besides the fatigues of 
the journey, other difficulties remained to be sur- 
mounted. The people of the caravan had dispers- 
ed, 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 
journey, not only robbed him of several valuable 
articles, but, by the most consummate treachery, 
infused suspicions into the mind of the Sultan, 
prevented him from being admitted to his pre- 
sence, 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 
convalescence, he proceeded to El-Fasherin order 
to procure an audience of the king, but was re- 
ceived with the most pointed inattention, as he 
could seldom procure admission to the levees, 
and never an opportunity of speaking. The 
effects he had brought to Darfur, for commerce 
