O n the i ath, at ten minutes pail f i x we fet out from Sit
e l Bet, and a few minutes after came to a village called A-
geda, and'five miles further to another, whofe name is U.
iheta. At half pad nine we palled a third village, and at
h a lf after eleven encamped near a pool o f water, called Wed
Hydar, or the River o f the Lion. All the way from Wed
el Tumbel to this village we were much tormented with
the fly, the very noife o f which put our camels in fuch a
fr igh t that they ran violently into the thickeil trees and
bufhes, endeavouring to bruih off their loads. Thefe flies
do not bite at night, nor in the cool o f the morning. We
were freed from this difagreeable companion at Wed Hydar,
1 and were troubled with it no more.
A t four o’clock we again fet out through an extenfive
plain, quite defliiute o f wood, and all fown with tlora, and
about five miles further we encamped at a place named
Shwyb, where there is a Shekh called Welled Abou Haflan.
Wltile at Abou Haflan, we were furprifed with a violent
ftorm o f rain and wind, accompanied with great flalhes o f
lightning. This Itorm being blown over, we proceeded to
a village called Imfurt. - -At one mile and a h a lf further we
joined the river. The Nile here is in extreme beauty, and
-winds confiderably; it is broader than at Sennaar, the banks
flat, and quite covered with acacia and other'trees in fu ll
bloom. T he thick parts o f this wood were ftored with
great numbers o f antelopes, while the open places were covered
with large flocks o f cattle belonging to the Arabs
Refaa, who were returning from the lands to their pafiures
to the fouthward. Large flocks o f ftorks, cranes, and a variety
o f other birds, were fcattered throughout the plain,
a which
which was overgrown with fine grafs, and which even the
multitude o f cattle that thronged upon it feemed not capable
o f confuming. At three quarters pail fix in the evening
we came to a large village called Wed Medinai, clofe
upon the fide o f the river, which here having made a large
turn, comes again from the S. E. This town or village belongs
to a Fakir, who received us very hofpitably.
On the' 14th, at fix in the morning we fet out from Wed
Medinai in a diredlion N. W. arid at three quarters paft eight
arrived at the 'village Beroule. , We then entered a thick
wood, and thence into a very extenfive and cultivated plain,
fown with dora and Lammia; a plant which makes a principal
article in their food all over the fouthern part o f the
kingdom o f Sennaar, which is defcribed, and the figure o f
i t publiihed, by PrOfper Alpinus*. At a quarter pail eleven
we arrived at AZazo, about a mile and a h a lf d iilant from
th e Nile. The corn feemed here much more forward than
that at Sennaar, and in feyeral places it was in the ear. It
fain ed copioufly in the night o f the 14th, but before this
there had been a very dry feafon, and very great fcarcity
the preceding year. At ten minutes pail four in the afternoon
we left Azazo, our journey, lik e , that o f the day befo
re , partly through thick woods, and partly through plains
fown with dora. Our dirediion was nearly north, and the
river about two miles and a h a lf diilant, n ea rly‘parallel to
the road we went. At fix we came to a fmall village called
Sidi Ali el Genowi.
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* Y id . Biroipcr A lpin , cap. 27. page 44. tom. 2.