India, where it all at laft centers. I f the wakea o f Abyffi-
mian gold fells at 16 patakas^ the Sennaar gold fells at the
feme place for 22 patakas. The ivory fells at i-i oz. * per
rotol at Cairo, which is about 25 per cent lighter than the
Totol o f Mocha. Men-fiaves, at a medium, may be about
a wakea ¡per head at Sennaar. There are women, however,
who fell for 1:3 or 14 wakeas. What their ;peculiar excellencies
may be, which fo far alters the price,I cannot tell, on-
ly.they are preferred by rich people, both Turks and Moors,
to the Arab, Circallian, and Georgian women, during the
warm months in fummer.
T he Daveina Arabs, w ho are great hunters, carry the
ivory to Abyflinia, where they are not in fear. But no caravan
comes now from Sudan f to Sennaar, nor from Abyf-
finia or Cairo. The violence o f the Arabs, and the faithlefs-
mefs o f the government o f Sennaar, have ihut them up on
every fide but that o f Jidda, whether they go once a-year by
Suakem.
T he wakea o f Sennaar, "by which they fell gold, civet,
fcented oils, &c. iconfifts o f 10 drams ; 10 o f thefe wakeas
make a rotol. This wakea at Sennaar is accounted the
fame as that o f Mafuah.and Cairo. It is equabto 7 drams
S’] grains troy weight.
1 Rotol 10 Wakeas.
1 Wakea 10 Drams.
But
* Ounce o f gold is1 here meant.
if-Njgritia, ox the black countries on both fides o f the-Nigex*
B U t there is another wakea ufed by the merchants called,
the Atareys.
1 Rotol x-2 Wakeas,
1. Wakea 12 Drams. .
But this is only ufed for coarfe goods. There' is but one
long meafure in Sennaar, called the Draa, which is the
peek, or cubit, and is meafured from the center o f the
elbow-joint to the point o f the middle finger. T h is is
probably the ancient cubit o f Egypt, and o f the holy ferip?
ture..
I h a v e feidr, that the 5th and'6th o f Auguft i t rained, and
the river brought down great quantities o f fragments o f
houfes which it had fwept away from the country to the
fouthward. It was a-very unufual-fight to obferve a multitude
o f men fwimming in this violent current-, and then
coming aihore riding upon flicks and pieces o f timber.
Many people make a -trad e -o f this, as fuel is exceedingly
fearce at Sennaar. But there were other figns in this inundation,
that occupied the imagination o f this fuperftitious
people. Part o f the town had fallen, and a hyaena, as already,
obferved, had h ome alive acrofs the river, from, which the
wife .ones drew.melaneholy prefeges..
I h a d not been out o f the hbufe for two days on account
o fth e rain. On-the 7th I intended to have gone to A ir a ;
but on the morning was told by Hagi Belal, that Mahomet1'
Abou Kalec had advanced to the river El-aice,- to crofs it into
Atbara, and that Shekh Adelan had decamped from Aira ,,
and was gone to meet him ; .to this it was added, that Wed
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