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the southern garrisons. On September 30th a strong wind brought up to Dongola a large fleet of gayassas, which were promptly unloaded and despatched back to Kosheh for further cargoes. A big two-masted boat was placed at the disposal of myself and the correspondent of another paper. She was fifty feet in length and fourteen in breadth, and carried two large lateen sails. Her reis and his crew of two lazy Berberis were from the north, and knew but little of this portion of the river; but happily we had with us one of my camel-drivers, an old man called Oshea (an Arab and not an Irishman, as one would imagine