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fofne fanrly hillocks, where the gi^ound feems to be more' filevated than the reft, Idris the Hybeer told me, that one of the largeft caravans which ever came out of Egypt, under the condu(5t of the Ababde and the Bilhareen Arabs, was there covered with land, to the number of fome thoufands of camels. There are large rocks of grey granite fcattered through this plain. Ac ten o'clock we alighted at a place called trboygi, where are fome trees, to feed, our camels. The trees I have fo often mentioned in our journey thro' the defert are not timber, or tall- growing trees ; there are none of thefe north of Sennaar, except a few at Chendi. The trees 1 fpeak of, which the camels eat, are a kind of dwarf acacia, growing only to the height of bufhes ; and the wood fpoken of likewife is only of the defert kind, ate almoft bare by the camels- There are fome high trees, in-- deed, on the banks of the Nile. At half paft one o'clock we left Erboygi, and came to a large wood of doom (Palma Guciofera). Here, for the firft time, we faw a flirub which very much refembled Spanifh broom. The whole ground is dead fand, with fome rocks of reddiili granite.. Exactly at five o'clock we alighted in the wood, after having tra- velled a moderate pace,. The place is called El Cowie, and' is a ftation of the Bilhareen in the fummer months ; but thefe people were now eaft of us, three days journey, towards the Red Sea, where the rains had fallen, and there was plen- ty of pafture. At forty minutes pail twelve we left Ei Cowie, and at five o'clock in the evening alighted in a wood, called Terfowey, full of trees and grafs. The trees are the talleft and largeil we had feen fince leaving the Nile. We had this day enjoyed, as it were, a holiday, free from the terrors of the fand, or dreadful influence of the fimoom. Ihis poifonous wind had made feveral attempts to prevail
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