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 command of Mahomet Wed Ageeb is very extenive. It reaches from this paage of the river at Halifoon on the outh, as far as Wed Baal a Nagga on the north, and to the eat as far as the Red Sea, though a great part of thoe Arabs have been in rebellion, and have not paid their tax for ome years. His command on the wetward of the river reaches to Korti, all over the deert of Bahiouda, though lately the Beni Gerar, Beni Faifara, and Cubba-beefli, have expelled the ancient Arabs of Bahiouda, who pretend now only to be the ubjects of Kordofan. He has alo the charge of levying the tribute of hores from Dongola, in which conits the great trength of Sennaar.

is the limit of the rains, and is ituated upon a large circular peninula urrounded by the Nile from S. W. to N. W. that is, at all the points of W. It is half a mile, or omething more, from the river. This peninula contains all their own land, and is not watered by the river, but by what is raied from the tream by wheels turned by oxen. Halfaia conits of about three hundred houes; their principal gain is from a manufacture of very coare cotton cloth, called Dimour, which erves for mall money through all the lower parts of Atbara. There are palm-trees at Halfaia, but they produce no dates. The people here eat cats, alo the river hore and the crocodile, both of which are in great plenty. Halfaia, by many altitudes of the fun and liars, was found to be in lat. 15° 45′ 54″, and in long. 32° 49′ 15″ eat from the meridian of Greenwich.

On the 29th, at ix o'clock in the morning we left Halfaia, and continued our journey about 3 miles and a half further, when we came to two villages, a mall one to the Rh