fire our large fhip-blunderbufs, with fifty fmall bullets in fir*,
among the buihes, in the direction o f the road-fide ; b u t
we neither faw nor heard any thing o f thofe people thereafter,
i f there really wère any, nor did I, at the time, indeed,,
believe the camel-drtver had feen any one but through the
medium o f his own fears ; for the Arabs never attack you-
till near fun-fet, i f they are doubtful o f their own fuperio-
rity, or at dawn o f day, if-th e y think they have the a d v a n tage,
thaï t h e y may have time, to purfue you..
We, however, all continued'on foot, from four till the?
grey o f the morning o f the 19th o f April. : Indeed, fo vio--
lent an inclination to fleep had fallen upon me, that I was.
forced to walk, for fear o f breaking my neck by a ’fall from |
my camel, till eight o’clock, when we-halted in a wood o f
ebony buihes, growing like the birch tree in many ihoots
from the old items, which had been cut down for fear o f
harbouring the fly, and totally deprived o f their leaves af-
terwards, by the burning of-grafs, from the fame reafon..
This , place is called. Abou. Jehaarat, and is the limit between/
the government o f Teawa and Beyla. After fuch a very fa-
tiguing-joumey, we- refted at Abou Jehaarat till the afternoon.
The fun was very hot, but fortunately fome Ihep-.
herds caves were dug in the bank, and to thefe we fled for
flicker from the iritenfe heat o f the fun, where the ebony,
trees, though in a very thick wood, could afford us no fhade,,
for the reafons already given.
A t three o’clock in the afternoon w e fe't out from:
Abou Jehaarat, in a direéiion weft, and at eight in the-
evening we arrived at Beyla. There is ho ' water be».
tween Teawa and Bey la, Onee, Imgededema, and a number
T of;
o f villages, were fupplied with water’, from wells and,
had. large crops o f Indian corn fown about their pof-,
felfions. The curfe o f that country, the Arabs Daveina,
have deftroyed Imgededema, and all the villages about it,/
filled up their wells, burnt their crops, and expofed all the
inhabitants to die by famine.
We found Beyla to be in lat. i3°;42'4 "; that is,- about
eleven miles weft o f Teawa, and thirty-one, and a half miles-
due fouth. We were met by Mahortiet, the Shekh, at the,:
very entrance o f the town. He faid, he .looked upon us as
rifen from the dead; that we muft be. good people, and
particularly under the care of Providence, to have efcaped
the many fnares the Shekh o f Atbara had laid for us. Mahomet,
the Shekh, had provided every fort o f refreihment
pollible for us ; and, thinking we could not live without it,
he had ordered fugar for us from Sennaar. Honey for the
moft part hitherto had been its fubftifute. We had a good
comfortable fupper; as fine wheat-bread as. ever I ate in my
life, brought from Sennaar, as alfo r ic e ; in a word, every-,
thing that our kind landlord could.contribute to our plentiful
and hofpitable entertainment.
Our whole company was fulL ofjoy, to which the Shekh.
greatly encouraged them3 and if there was.an alloy to the
happinefs, it was the feeing that 1 did net partake o f it.
Symptoms o f an aguiih diforder had been hanging, about,
me for feveral days, ever fince the diarrhoea had left me. I.
found the greateft repugnance, ©r.naufea, at the fmell o f
warm m e a t; and, having a violent headach, I infilled upon
going to bed fupperleis, after having drank a quantity
-of warm water by way o f emetic, Being exceedingly ti-
3 i a red