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fame fide, is Deleb, a large village, with the flirine of a fa- mous faint of that name. The country here is more culti- vated and pleafant than that which we had pafled ; there is a low ridge of hills in the way. At half pad fix in the even- ing of the 2d of Odober we arrived at Wed Baal a Nagga. The village is a very large one, belonging to a Fakir, a faint of the firil confideration in the government of Chendi. All this country, except immediately upon the Nile, is defert and fandy. All along the plain we faw numbers of people digging pits, and taking out the earth, which they boil in large earthen vafes or pans. This is the only way they procure themfelves fait, of which they fend great quanti- ties to Halfaia, where is a market, and from whence it is fent to Sennaar.

On the 3d, at five o'clock, we left Wed Baal a Nagga, and continued along the Nile, which is about a quarter of a mile oflF; and feven miles further to the N. E. we pafiTed a tomb of the Fakir el Deragi, clofe to the road on our left hand Ail from Wed Baal a Nagga, on both fides of the Nile, is pi6turefque and pleafant, full of verdure, and varied with houfes in diflferent fituations till we come to the tomb of this Fakir. Immediately from this all is bare and defolate^ except one verdant fpot by the fide of the river, -fliaded with fine trees, and full of herbage, and there we alighted at nine o'clock. This place is called Maia ; a few trees appear on the other fide, but beyond thefe all the country is defert. It is inhabited atprefent by the Jaheleen Arabs of Wed el Faal; as they have bad violent fliowers in the high coun- try, and their pools were Hill full of water, they ftaid by them longer than ordinary feeding their cattle. Idris Wed €l Faal, governor of Chendi, nephew to Wed Ageeb, and fon 4 '<"