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This, before it was ascertained to be well founded , was a signal for massacre. 
The advanced guard fired ; few victims fell, but the people took to flight 
through the tall grass which concealed them. The soldiery, furious, hastened 
pell-mell out of the harks ; and deaf to recall, pursued the blacks. Some 
officers followed them, but could not restrain their eagerness. Those of the 
Sudan were especially violent : many blacks fell before their attack.” Again 
on the 6 th, “A hundred blacks, amongst whom were women, showed them- 
selves at a distance watching us ; some were dancing, others carried arrows 
and lances. Our dragoman assured us that they had ill intentions ; this was 
a signal for attack. A sub-officer commanding thirty men ordered them to 
fire ; one black fell, the rest took to flight, and our troops put themselves in 
line of battle to the sound of the drum This expedition was terrible ; 
many of the natives, unable to save themselves, fell victims. A lake into 
which many of these unfortunates threw themselves was strewn with dead 
bodies. Our men returned glorieux ! driving before them some young calves, 
&c. It was an absurd folly to desire to punish these people, who, doubtless, 
had no idea of injuring us. The dragoman had done it all.” By such mani- 
festations as these, the Egyptians hoped to open a commerce with the 
interior ! Such commerce, however, if it could be established, could not fail 
to be profitable. In one decayed village the author observed that elephants’ 
teeth were picketed in the ground to form pens for cattle, and had been used 
in the construction of cabins and outhouses. 
The expedition arrived at Khartum, on its return, March 29, 1840, after an 
absence of four months and a half. On the 26th of January the boats had 
reached a point beyond which the diminished depth of water at that season 
would not permit them to advance. M. Thibaut records at full length a speech 
of his own (p. 81) in a council of deliberation held on the subject, which he 
says materially influenced the decision for an immediate return. 
3. Biblical Researches in Palestine and the adjacent Regions : a Journal of 
Travels in the Years 1838 and 1852. By Edward Robinson, Eli 
Smith, and others. Drawn up by Professor E. Robinson, d.d., 
Gold Medallist r.o.s., etc. Second edition, with new Maps and 
Plans. Murray. 
Four handsome volumes, under the above title, have recently been added to 
the library of the Society. The former edition, for which it will be recollected 
the Society awarded to its author a gold medal in 1842, was in three volumes. 
These, as Professor Robinson announces, have in the present edition been com- 
pressed into two volumes, partly by a change of type and partly by the omis- 
sion of portions of the former appendix and notes, whilst the text remains for 
the most part unchanged. The third volume of the present edition consists 
of the additional researches of the author and his fellow-travellers in the same 
region in 1852 ; and the fourth of the volumes, to which we have alluded, is 
merely a duplicate of the third in the second edition, and is published in a 
separate form, to render complete the series belonging to the possessors of 
the first edition. 
The journeys of Professor Robinson, as detailed in the volumes published in 
1841, were first through central Europe to portions of Greece and Egypt — then 
from Cairo to Suez — to Mount Sinai — to Akabah — to Jerusalem and through 
its neighbourhood, after descriptions of the topography, antiquities, history, 
statistics, &c., of that city — from Jerusalem (N.) to Bethel — to ’Ain Jidy, the 
Dead Sea, Jordan, &c. — from Jerusalem (S.W. and S.) to Gaza and Hebron — 
from Hebron (S.S.E.) to Wady Musa and Petra — from Hebron to Ramlehand 
