ill
doubtless be a most valuable acquisition to geography.]

* Since dead in Sennaar, This unfortunate man died a chained maniac, in
consequence of violent fever.]

[Footnote 4: Corresponding to the end of September, or the former part
of October, A.C. 1820.]

[Footnote 5: This force may be thus enumerated: ten pieces of field
artillery, one mortar 8 inch caliber, and two small howitzers, attached
to which were one hundred and twenty cannoneers; three hundred Turkish
infantry and seven hundred Mogrebin ditto; the remainder of the army
Turkish and Bedouin cavalry, together with a corps of Abbadies mounted
on dromedaries.]

[Footnote 6: Called the Shellal of Semne.]

[Footnote 7: Called the Shellal of Ambigool.]

[Footnote 8: Called the Shellal of Tongaroo.]

[Footnote 9: Called the Shellal of Dal.]

[Footnote 10: I have been informed that about two miles northward of
this place, on the west side of the river, is to be seen a curious
vaulted edifice, having the interior of its walls in many places covered
with paintings. My informants believed that it was anciently a Christian
monastery. This is possible, as the ruins of several are to be seen on
the Third Cataract, and, as I have been told, on the Second also.]

[Footnote 11: About seventy miles above Wady Haifa.]

[Footnote 12: I cannot help smiling in copying off this part of my
journal, at the little account I made of "bread rice and lentils," at
the commencement of the campaign. Before I left Sennaar, I have been
more than once obliged to take a part of my horse's rations of durra to
support nature. He ate his portion raw and I boiled mine. The causes
of such distress were that the natives of the Upper country would
frequently refuse to sell us any thing for our dirty colored piastres of
Egypt, and the Pasha would allow nobody to steal but himself. "Steal" a
fico for the phrase. The wise "convey it call," says ancient Pistol, an
old soldier who had seen hard times in the wars.]

[Footnote 13: These were the rapids of Dall.]

[Footnote 14: In every dangerous pass, we invariably saw one or more of
our boats wrecked.]

[Footnote 15: It is called Gamatee.]

[Footnote 16: The middle of the Upper Nile is generally occupied by an
almost continued range of islands.]

[Footnote 17: I learned afterwards from Khalil Aga, the American, who
accompanied me to Sennaar and back again to Egypt, and who visited tins
spot, that this column made a part of the ruin