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TRAVELS IN CENTRAL AFRICA. 
beyond the roar of the flames,, and every vestige of humanity was 
lost in the ashes that commingled with it. The year afterwards 
Mahommed Ali Pacha dispatched his son-in-law^ the terrible 
Deftar Dar,, to execute punishment for the murder of his son^ and 
how amply and indiscriminately upon man^ woman,, and child it was 
carried out,, resulting in the flight to Abyssinia of all who^ under 
Meek Nimr^ escaped the sword and death in a frightful variety of 
forms^ is too well known to need more than this brief notice. 
Some way beyond^ the river runs between several lovely islands^ 
all luxuriant with trees. Then appear two rocks,, one called 
Djebel Dil,, the other Haggar il Assal,, the ‘^‘^Pock of Honey: 
these form the boundary between the provinces of Berber and 
Khartoum. Here we observed a wreck,, and the reis said it be- 
longed to a Khartoum merchant^ a friend of PethericFs. The 
strong current carried her on to the Honey Bock a few months 
previously,, and a great part of her cargo was lost. A cataract of no 
importance near. Still farther on there is a solitary rock in the 
middle of the river ; then comes a range of mountains called 
Djebel Gurri. Here the river winds through a ravine^ with here 
and there a tree upon the otherwise barren rocks. 
We then came to a large village,, called Gog Nerefissa, and near 
it, when the river is low, is a dangerous cataract called Sof Sof. 
or Becham, meaning mercy Still farther on is a village called 
Wallad il Bassal. On the east bank there are barren mountains, 
Djebel Mellikeet, and on the same side is the village of Tamaniat. 
Opposite, on the west bank, are the mountains Djebel Sheikh il 
Taib (‘'^Mountain of the Good Chief ; then, still on the west, 
near to Khartoum, are long sterile mountains of trap rock, the 
Djebel Kerrerri ; a village of the same name stands below. A few 
days of fitful sailing and steady towing brought us within a short 
