THE DJEBEL DINK A 
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the Lady of the Nile bumped heavily upon unseen rocks ; down 
came baskets, and birds, and sundry papers, &c. Another severe 
bump, and she was off ; but she had sprung a leak. The crew 
busily baled, and we still held our way. At four p.m. caught 
PASSING THE DJBBEE DINKA MOUNTAINS. 
a glimpse of Mahommed Cheir^s dahabyeh, in company with a 
small steamer, both at anchor in a different channel of the river to 
us. At a great distance from the river, east side, rose a lofty sugar- 
loaf mountain called II Mismoom. 
At sunset the usual stoppage for fodder, had a little shooting, 
collected a lovely water-moss and some grasses, all from an island 
in the centre of the river. Sailed in an hour, but the wind was 
fast dying away ; we were in the Pond, as it is called, of the two 
mountains, Birket il Djebelein, so still and calm is the water. 
