and fouth, as do the villages, and the iinall river when it
has water, but it was now apparently dry. However, b y
d ig g in g pretty deep in the land, the water filtering through
thefides o f the holes filled in a certain time with a putrid,
ill-tailed, unwholefome beverage, which is all this mifer-
able village has for its ufe. The people look fickly and ill-
poloured. Falaty is three miles and a h a lf diftantfrom.Hor-
Cacamoot, its name interpreted is Poverty.
On the 18 th, at h a lf after fix in the morning we continued
our journey through thick, and almoft impenetrable
woods fu ll o f thorns ; and in two hours w e came to the
bed o f a torrent, though in appearance dry, upon digg ing
with our hands in the ioofe fand, we found great plenty
o f frefh water exceedingly well tailed, being flickered
by projea ing rocks from the adion o f the fun. This is
called Surf el Shekh. Here we filled our girbas, for there
is very little good water to be found between this and
Teawa,
A g i r b a is an ox’s flrin fquared, and the edges fewed toge
ther very artificially by a double feam, which does not
let out water, much refembling that upon the bell Englifh
cricket-balls. An opening is left in the top o f the girba, in
the fame manner as the bung-hole o f a calk. Around this
the 1km is gathered to the fize o f a large handful, which,
when the girba is fu ll o f water, is tied round with whim
cord. Thefe girbas generally contain about.fixty gallons
each, and two o f them are the load o f a camel. They are
then all befmeared on the outfide with greafe, as well to
hinder the water from oozing through, as to prevent its
being evaporated by the aftion o f the fun upon the girba,
which
which in fa d happened to us twice, fo as to put us in- imminent
danger o f perifliing with thirft.
Y a s i n e had provided a camel and two girbas, as well as
every other provifion neceffary for us, till we fliould arrive
at Teawa. Surf el Shekh is the boundary ®f Ras el Feel
Here I took an affedionate leave o f my friend Yafine, who,
w ith all his attendants, fliewed, at parting,.that love and attachment
they had eonftantly preferved to me fince our firfl
acquaintance.
S o l i m a n , my old' and fa ith fu l fervant, who had carried!
my firft letter fo Sennaar, though provided for in the k in g ’s
fervice, infilled upon- attending me to Sennaar, and dying,
with me i f it fttould- be m y fate ; or eHe gaining the reward
which had been promifed him, i f he brou ght back the
good hews o f iny fafe arrival and good reception there. At
parting, I gave the faithful Yafine one- o f my horfes and
my coat o f mail, that is my ordinary o n e ; for the one'
that was given me by Ozoro Either had belonged to k in g
Yafous, and as it would have been an affront to have be-i
flowed it on a common manlike Yafine, who;befides, was a
Mahometan, fo I gave it (with Ozoro Eflher’s confent) to-
Ayto Engedan, k in g Yafous’s grandfon. Before parting,.
Yafine, like an old traveller, called the whole company together,
and obliged them- to repeat the Fedtah, the Prayer.'
©f Peace. .
At h a lf pall feven in the evening we came to Engaldi,.
a large bafon or cavity, feveral hundred yards in length,,
and about thirty feet deep, made for the reception o f water-
fey the Arabs, w ho encamp by its fide after the rains- The-
4 watest