RESIDENCE IN DARFUR. 
and presents, were seized, at an arbitrary valua- 
tion, for the use of the Sultan, notwithstanding 
his remonstrance. A frivolous charge of violating 
the female slave of the person with whom he 
lodged at El-Fasher being commenced against 
him, and a very considerable compensation claim- 
ed by her master, the Sultan was induced to in- 
terfere, and take him under his immediate pro- 
tection, in order to prevent reprisals from being 
made on the property of his own subjects in 
Egypt. Mr Browne resided afterwards with the 
Melek of the Jelabs, or the officer who presides 
over the foreign merchants, by whom he was 
treated with kindness and attention. He en- 
deavoured, by the mediation of this officer, to ob- 
tain a compensation for his effects which had 
been seized, and permission to accompany the 
armed expeditions for procuring slaves ; but was 
informed that he would certainly perish, either 
by the jealousy of the depredators whom he ac- 
companied, or the hostility of the tribes on whom 
they perpetrated these enormities. Renouncing, 
therefore, this design, he requested permission 
either to pass into Bergoo, the first Mahometan 
kingdom on the west, or to Sennaar, through 
Kordofan ; but the Melek suggested, that both 
these routes were equally impracticable, from the 
jealousy which subsisted between Bergoo and 
Darfur, and the insurrections in Kordofan, and 
