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yourney from Sennaar. to Chendi..
A FTER leaving Sennaar I was. overtaken on the road b y
a black Have, who at firft gave me fome apprehen-
fion, as I was alone with only one Barbarian, a Nubian fer-
vant, by the fide o f my camel, and was goin g flowly. Upon
inquiry I found him to be fent from Hagi Belal, with
a baiket containing fome green tea and fugar, and-four bottles
o f rack, in return for my letter. I fent back the mef-
fenger, and gave the care o f the baiket to my own fervant;'
and, about ten o’clock in the evening o f the £th o f Septem-
ber, we all met together jo yfu lly at Soliman..
Before my departure from Sennaar I : had prevailed on
a Fakir, or Mahometan monk, fervant to Adelan, to write a.
letter
letter to his mailer, unknown to any other perfon whatever,
to let him know my apprehenfions of- the king, and'
that, in the uncertainty how far his occupations might o-
blige him to move from Shaddly, m y way was dire&ly for
Herbagi, and requefting that he would give me fuch recommendations
to Wed Ageeb as ihould put me in fafety
from the kin g’s perfecution, and infure me protection and
good reception in Atbara. I begged him, in the mod feri-
ous manner, to eonfider, however flightly he had thought
o f the k in g o f AbyfEnia’s recommendatoryletters, he would
not treat thofe o f the regency o f Cairo, and o f the flierriffe -
o f Mecca, in the fame manner; that my nation was h ighly
refpefted in both places ; and that it was known, by letters
written from Sennaar, that I actually was arrived th e re ;
that they ihould take care therefore, and not b y ill-ufage o f
me expofe their merchants, either at Mecca or Cairo, to a
fevere retaliation that would immediately follow the receiving
bad news o f me, or no news at all. My faithful
Soliman, who was now to leave me, was charged to carry
the anfwers they Ihould choofe to return to the letters I
brought from Abyffinia, and I fent him that very night, together
with the Fakir, to Adelan at Shaddly, fu lly inftrudted
with every particular o f ill-ufage I had received from the
k in g, o f w hich he had been an eye-witnefs.
A l t h o u g h my fervants, as w e l l as Hagi Belal, and every
one at Sennaar but the Fakir and Soliman, did imagine I
was goin g to Shaddly,.yet their own fears, or rather good
fenfe, had convinced them that it was better to proceed at
once for Atbara than ever again to be entangled between
Adelan and the king.’. Sennaar fat heavy upon a l l their
fgirits, fa that. I. had fearce difmounted from my camel,.,
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