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tance from Shekh Shaddly's tomb, where fuch executions could not be performed with decency.
I MADE him a fmall prefent of fine muflin, which I had bought at Sennaar; and, in the courfe of converfation, he told me that the Moorilh troops from Ras el Feel had burnt Tea- wa.; that the Daveina were with them, and had plundered the Jehaina, and forced Fidele to fly to Beyla. I afked if any Chriilian troops were among them? fufpe(5ling much Ayto Engedan and Ayto Confu. He faid there were none but the Moors of Ras el Feel, the Ganjar horfc of Kuara, and the Arabs Daveina. As I did not wifh to be known in tliis matter, I puihed my inquiries no further : I afked him to provide me with one of his men for fear of the Shukorea Arabs, with which he complied, adding, that he was him- fclf going out to the Shukorea, and would fend a man to Halfaia, where I was toconfider,and acquaint him, whether I was to pafs the Nile at Gerri, and go by the defert of Ba- hiouda and Dongola, or by the more unfrequented way of Chendi, Barbar, and the great defert, the fatigues and dan- gers of which he rhought it impofTible for a European to fufFer, but would give me a letter to Sittina his filler, to whom that country belonged. After Chendi, he afTured me there was no protecSlion to be relied upon but that of Jieaven. This fenfible difcourfe was of great fcrvice ta me, as it fet me all the reft of the journey upon the in- quiry as to the proper fteps for performing this dangerous expedition.
Gn the iSth, at feven o'clock I left Herbagi, after wri- ting a letter to Adelan, thanking him for his punctuality aiid care of me, and giving the fervant that had come on
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