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TEASELS IN CENTEAL AFEICA. 
my poor wife was very weak and feverisTi_, but_, knowing ske was on 
the way home_, ske tried to be ckeerful. 
The Blue Biver^ now a month on the increase^ is swollen to about 
half its rise at high Nile^ and its waters^ during the summer so 
clear^ had now_, being charged with fertilizing mud_, become brown 
in colour. 
July — After a hard day^s work with Arab secretaries,, re- 
specting my affairs^ and wishing good bye to Joyce and others^ at 
five p.m. we bade adieu to Khartoum^ and from our hearts hoped 
we may never see it more. An hour before us^ Miss Tinne, in a 
daliabyeliy her luggage in another^ and Von Heuglin in a third boat^ 
had passed by. At 6.30 p.m. they were moored under the village 
of Halfaya^ and we continued a mile or tAVO farther down^ to the 
island of Om HossaiA where Bilal our reis's home was. 
July Qth. — Bilal,, according to the generous practice of the peo- 
ple of the Soudan^ came on boards bringing dates^ vegetables^ 
fowls j and a sheep,, to present to us. Driving before a strong 
south wind^ we,, in company with Miss Tinne^ moored at Tam- 
aniat, a large property^ that is but indifferently cultivated for the 
heirs of Ahmed Pasha^ a late Governor- General of the Soudan. 
But a couple of miles farther down^ the river winds through a 
short range of basalt hills^ called Djebel Raweean,, and the 
passage,, owing to a sudden turn of the river in the midst of them^ 
with a rock in the centre of the stream^ is difficult to navigate,, 
and many are the disasters,, during high Nile,, that occur here. 
No one will attempt to navigate this portion of the river at nighty 
SO;, to allow the sailors to cook their supper on shore^, at five p.m. 
AA^e make fast at the island of AVallad Hossoona. 
