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Cuvier was obtained by him in the environs of the isle of Moqrat, meets with no 
support from Cuvier’s account. 
On the right bank of the Blue Nile, above its junction with the Rahad and below 
that with the Dender, the country is covered with clumps of trees and spiny bushes, and 
in this locality Cailliaud ^ observed many monkeys in the trees; also below Sennaar, 
towards Dender, he saw a troop of eleven monkeys, which he designates Callitriche, 
They appeared to be very plentiful and were caught by the natives by exposing 
vessels full of an intoxicating drink (^bulbul), which being drunk by the monkeys 
rendered them easy of capture. 
Ehrenberg relates that he saw SiTTiid scihoBd more than once with the Xurkish soldiers 
and that he received one as a present. He was assured by the natives that the 
monkeys were to be found two days’ journey from Ambukol ^; but he seems to have 
discredited this, as he says he had convinced himself that there were no monkeys in 
Nubia and Dongola, and probably never had been any, but adds notwithstanding that 
they were found two days’ journey in a southern direction from Ambukol, near Sennaar. 
As the distance between these places is very much greater than that represented by 
the time mentioned, the natives doubtless meant two days north from Ambukol, 
which would bring the spot indicated by them close to where Cailliaud had obtained 
C. griseus, F. Cuvier. 
Riippell 3 does not mention the presence of C. sdhceus on the Abu Hamed bend of 
the Nile; but he records its existence in Kordofan and Sennaar, probably in those 
parts of the former province which skirt the Nile, and not in the interior towards 
El Obeid. He observed it to be common in all the lower parts of Abyssinia up to 
1219 metres above the sea. 
The presence of monkeys at Abu Hamed in the second and third decades of the 19th 
century is further substantiated by Linant de Bellefonds who says the woods about 
Abu Hamed were full ot monkeys, which on the approach of man betook themselves 
to the dhum-palms. To capture them the Arabs set fire to the trees and thus obliged 
the monkeys to leap to the ground. 
Hoskins'^, who visited Abu Hamed in 1833, described the valley of the Nile at that 
place as being neither very pleasing nor fertile, and the eastern bank of the river he 
characterized as almost entirely swallowed up by the desert. The island of Moqrat in 
^ Voy. a Meroe, &c. vol. ii. p. 221. 
2 Abhandl. k. Ak. Wissensch. fieri. 1833, p. 347. 3 Neue Wirbelth. 1835-40, p. 8. 
^ LEtbaye, &c. p. 34. This volume bears no date, but it was published many years after the journeys 
he described were made, seemingly not until 1858. In the work itself no years are mentioned, but in 1827 
he explored the province of Atbara and had ascended the Nile in the boat belonging to the Association for 
promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa. 
^ Travels in Ethiopia, 1835, p. 34. 
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