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have power to carry us off our feet, nor fuffocate us, which was the ordinary cafe.

Our kind landlords, the Nuba, gave us a hearty welcome, and helped us to wafh our clothes firft, and then to dry them. When I was ftripped naked, they faw the blood ninning from my nofe, and faid, they could not have thought that one fo white as me could have been capable of bleeding. They gave us a piece of roafted hog, which we ate, (except Ifmael and the Mahometans) very much to the fatisfa(5tion of the Nuba. On the other hand, as our camel was lame, we ordered one of our Mahometan fervants to kill it, and take as much of it as would ferve themfelves that night; we alfo provided againft wanting ourfelves the next day. The reft we^ave among our new-acquired acquaintance, the Nu- ba of the village, who did not fail to make a feaft upon it for feveral days after ; and, in recompence for our liberality, they provided us with a large jar of bouza, not very good, indeed, but better than the well-water. This I repaid by tobacco, beads, pepper, and ftibium, which I faw plain- ly was infinitely more than they expedled. Although we had been a good deal furprifed at the fudden and violent effedis of the whirlwind of that day, and feverely felt the bruifes it had occafioned, yet we paffed a very focial and agreeable evening ; thofe only of the Nuba who had been any time at Sennaar fpeak a bad kind of Arabic, as well as their own language. I had feldom, in my life, upon a journey, pafifed a more comfortable night. I had a very neat, clean hut, entirely to myfelf, and a Greek fervant that fat near me. Some of the Nuba watched for us all night, and took care of our beafts and baggage. They fung and 3 replied