DESCRIPTIONS OF EGYPT. 
arrived at Dehr, the residence of Hassan Cacheff, 
the sovereign of this district. The Cacheff, a tall 
handsome young man, was half drunk when they 
were introduced. He asked them roughly what 
they wanted, and why they came to Dehr ? On 
coming to particulars, it was intimated, that a fine 
Damascus blade, worth 500 piastres, would secure 
permission to proceed up the river. This arrange- 
ment had not entered into Mr Legh's contempla- 
tion ; in lieu of the sword he proffered a v/atcb, 
being the present destined for the Cacheff ; but 
it was contemptuously rejected, as an article of 
the use of which he had not the remotest idea. 
Mr Legh was, therefore, finally obliged to pro- 
duce the sword, and he then received permission 
to proceed in any direction he chose. The next 
stage was Ibrim, about half a day's journey be- 
yond Dehr ; but it had been entirely destroyed 
by the Mamelukes. The recent communication 
with the Cacheff, however, seems to have cooled 
our traveller's zeal for proceeding farther ; he re* 
turned to Dehr, and from thence again descended 
the Nile. 
Mr Legh was followed in 1814 by Captain 
Light, who, though he did not penetrate farther 
up the Nile, appears to have surveyed the remains 
of antiquity with more minute attention. At Gar- 
taas, he found architectural ruins scattered at 
intervals for nearly two miles. They consisted 
