DEPARTURE FROM DARFUR, 415 
claimed by other barbarous princes, and may 
serve, in some measure, to mark the degree of 
civilization attained at the Furian court. The 
kings of Mexico were denominated hackers of 
men, and drinkers of blood. The king of Achem 
in Sumatra is designated, hord of heaven and 
earth, and of the four and twenty umhrellaSy who 
is as spiritual as a ball is round. The emperor 
of Monomotapa receives the titles of Great Ma' 
gician, and Great Thief, During the space of 
three years that Mr Browne continued in Darfur, 
affairs continued in the same situation : he some- 
times acted as a physician ; his Egyptian broker 
attempted to poison him when he could not ac- 
complish his assassination ; symptoms of violence 
appeared in the populace ; his resources of sub- 
sistence were almost exhausted, and the Sultan's 
permission to depart from Darfur could not be 
procured. Mr Browne had now recourse to ar- 
tifice, and insinuated to the chief of the caravan, 
and the principal merchants, the danger of ap- 
pearing without him in Egypt, alleging that he 
had been able to despatch to that country intelli- 
gence of his situation in Darfur. These insinua- 
tions had their effect, and by the solicitations of 
the intimidated merchants, he was graciously per- 
mitted by the Sultan to join the caravan, and ar- 
rived at Assiut in Egypt in the summer 1796, 
after an absence of nearly three years. In Dar- 
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