I offered them money, and Khalil Aga his musket, to bring him safe and
sound to the river. I appealed to their humanity in vain, and to their
avarice without effect.[86] We told them that the Christians, in a case
of this kind, would send not one but forty men, if necessary, to go and
save a fellow creature from the horrible death of desert famine; and
that heaven would surely require at their hands the life of this young
man, if they neglected to save him At length the Sheck of the village
promised me to send a dromedary to the place to-morrow morning. He made
the promise probably to appease my reproaches, for he did not fulfill
it.

On the second day after my arrival, I dipped my feet and slippers into
the Nile, and bequeathing the village of Seboo my most hearty curse,
(which God fulfill!) embarked on board a boat on its way from Dongola to
Egypt, and in three days reached Assuan.[87]

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FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: For instance, a navigable passage has been cut through the
rocks of the First Cataract, and a canal is at present constructing,
by order of the Pasha, round some of the most difficult passes of
the Second. He has completed a broad and deep canal from the Nile to
Alexandria, by which commerce is liberated from the risk attending the
passage of the Boghaz of Rosetta. Large establishments for the fabric
of saltpeter, gunpowder, cannon and small arms, others for the fabric
of silks, cotton and sugar, have been erected by the Viceroy, and are in
operation under the superintendence of Europeans.]

[Footnote 2: Their names are as follows:--Succoot, Machass, Dongola,
Shageia, Monasier, Isyout, Rab-a-Tab, Berber, Shendi, Halfya, the
kingdoms of Sennaar, Darfour, and Kordofan; at present, all subject to
the conqueror of Egypt and Arabia.]

[Footnote 3: Mr. Frediani, an Italian*, and Messrs. Caillaud and
Constant, the latter sent out by His Most Christian Majesty, have
accompanied our camp to Sennaar, where I left them in good health. To
Messrs. Caillaud and Constant, particularly, I am indebted for much
cordiality and friendship, which it is a pleasure to me to acknowledge.
The geographical positions of the most important places on the Upper
Nile have been ascertained by Mr. Constant, who is provided with an
excellent set of instruments, with great care and the most indefatigable
pains, of which I myself have been a witness. His observations w