our affiilants was to Hide the quadrant down the hill, in it s
cafe, which would have utterly deftroyed it 5} and as our bo at
was but a very indifferent embarkation, it was obliged to.
make feveral turns to and fro before we got all our feveral
packages landed on the weftern fide. This affemblage, and
the paffage o f our camels, feemed to have excited the appetite,
or the curioiity, of' the crocodiles.. One, in particu—
lar, fwam feveral times backwards and forwards along
the fide o f the boat, without, however, making any attack
upon any o f u s ; but, being exceedingly tired o f fuch company,
upon his fecond or third venture over, I fired at him.
with.airifle-gun, and fliot him direftly under his fore flioul-
der in the belly. T he wound was undoubtedly mortal, and;
very-few animals could have lived a moment after receiving
it., He, however, dived to the bottom, leaving the water
deeply tinged with his bloods Nor did, we fee him again,
at that time;, but thepeople-at the ferry brought him to me-
the day after, having found him perfectly dead. He was .
about twelve feet lo n g ; and the boatmen told me that thefe:
are by m uch the mad dangerous, being more fierce and active
than the large-ones. The people o f Sennaar eat the-
crocodile, efpecially the Nuba. 1 never tailed it myfelf, but
it looks very much like Congor eel..
C H A P . Vlir.-
Gdnvetfatisn with the Kingr—With Shekh Adelan*— Interview •with the-'
Rings Ladies, Sec. Sec..
WE were condufted by Adelan’s fervant to a very fpaci—
ous goodhoufe belonging to the Shekh himfelf, havin
g two ftoreys, a long quarter o f a mile from the k in g ’s palace..
He left a.meffage for us to repofeourfelves, and in a.
day or two to wait' upon the king, and that he fliould-
fend to tell us when we were to come to him. This we re -
folved to have complied with moil' e x a f t l y b u t th e very-
next morning, the 30th o f April, there came a fervant from'
the palace to fummon us to wait upon the k in g, which w e
immediately obeyed., I took with me three fervants, b lack
Soliman, Ifmael the Turk, and m y Greek fervant Michael..
The palace covers a prodigious deal o f ground. It is all o ff
one ftorey, built o f clay, and the floors o f earth. The chambers
through which we palled. were alL unfurniihed, andi
feemedi