told me, Sennaar was but a' bad place for white people; but
promifed to fend recommendations-in my favour, both to
Adelan and the k in g ’s women, by Adelan’s fervant, who
was to conduit us.
' W hen I returned to the Shekh, the emerfion was far advanced,
and they all feemed to be regaining their,compo-
fure, though ftrong marks o f furprife remained in their
countenances. After a little converfation, turning chiefly
upon Hagiuge Magiuge, and their filly flories about them,
which I fhall not repeat, I took my leave, and went home,
renewing my aflurances that all was forgotten.
A t night, the Have came and brought a clean cotton
cloth. I fent a piece o f thin India yellow fatin, andfixhand-
fome crimfon and green handkerchiefs, to the beautiful
Aifcach ; and, to the beft o f my power, difcharged all our
obligations to thofe that were our friends and had been
k in d to us.
I n a country fo defert/and exceedingly poor as Teawa,
under fuch a government, it is not to be expefted that trade
-of any kind ihould flquriih ; yet there is a miferable ma-
nu|adture o f coarfe cotton cloths o f the fize o f large towels,
juft enough to go round the middle, which pafs current,
like fpecie, all over Atbara : They are called Dimoor, and
are ufed in place o f fmall filver money. The Mahalac, a
very bad copper coin, pafies for fmaller matters; fo that the
currency o f Teawa ftands th u s :—
20 Mahalae, i Cruih,
12 Cruih, i Metical,
4 Metical, i Vakia.
The
The vakia o f gold is worth about forty-five ihillings ; but
the only commerce o f Teawa is carried on by exchange,'
as fait for grain, camels for f a i t t h e value o f goods varying
according to the fcarcity or plenty o f one fort o f commodities
with refpeit to the other.
T h e reader will, I believe, b y this, be as defirous to g e t
out o f Teawa as I was ; and i f fo, it is charity in time to
deliver him. I took leave o f the Shekh on the i 8 th in the
m o rn in g ; but before we could get all ready to depart it was .
five in the afternoon. The day had been immoderately hot,
and we had refolved to travel all night, though we did
not fay fo to the Shekh, who advifed us to fleep at Imge-
dedema, ’ where there was frefh water. But we had taken
a girba o f water with us, or rather, in cafe o f accident, a
little in each o f the three girbas ; and all being ready on
the river-fide, except the k in g ’s fervant, we fet but, and he
overtook us in lefs .than two hours afterwards, pretty well
refreihed with the Shekh’s bouza, and ilrongly prejudiced
againft us, as we had occafion to difcover afterwards,.