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 Sio TRAVELS TO DISCOVER

the errand a fmall prefent. He told me it would be ten days before he returned to the camp ; with which lafljn- telligence I was very well pieafed, as thereby no informa- tion could arrive where I was, till I was forgot, or out of their power. At ten minutes paft eleven we arrived at Wed ql Frook, a fmall village clofe upon the Nile. Nothing could be more beautiful than the country we pafTed that day, partly covered with very pleafant woods, and partly in lawns, with a few fine fcattered trees. The Nile is a fliort quarter of a mile from the village, and is fully half a mile broad. It runs fmooth, and when in inundation, overflows the fmall fpace of ground between its prefent banks and Wed el Frook. It was now conliderably lower than it had been, and was confined within its banks.

On the 19th we fet out from Wed el Frook at half pafl five in the morning, and about four miles from it came to a large village, and the tomb of a Fakir, the Nile running all the way parallel to our road. At ten o'clock we came to another village called Abouafcar ; and a little way ea(l of it, in the river, there is a large ifland confiderably above the water, where flirubs and grafs grow abundantly. The vil- lage is placed upon a fmall hill, and there are a great many of the fame fize and fhape fcattered about the country on the banks of the river, which add greatly to the beauty of it, as we had not yet feen fuch fmce our leaving Sennaar. At three quarters pafl one we came to the village of Kamily. The country here is more open, the foil lighter, the grafs fhort and thin ; it is all laid out in pafture, and there is here plenty of goats, as well as black cattle. This day we met a caravan from Egypt, lafl from Chendi, who brought IW word that AU Bey was depofed, and Mahomet Abou 4 Dahab