DAMEK. 19 as the palm of his hand, and had before now ascended it with Ismiil Pascha, &c., &c., to all of wliicli I calmly listened, when we a"'aiii went bump on a hidden rock till all crashed again. Such was again and again our fate, till, after a long passage of eleven days, we arrived at Damer, during which we consumed various sheep, which we had forced the natives on the banks to sell to us.

After my cold bath, my fever had left me, and all that remained of it was a real wolf's appetite, which I, without feeling any trace of indigestion, indulged by most ravenous devourings. So sudden, in these climes, is the step from severe illness to perfect health.

On the morning of the 18th May, we at length landed in front of Damer, some three miles above the debouchement of the Atbara into the Nile. No longer are any remains of this hierarchical city to be seen, such as Burckhardt, in former days, beheld them:— it is now only a village, with some high, decaying, loam walls. A sudden alarm now seized me at not immediately beholding my brother, and I hurried off to the Pascha's tent, pitched near the river's bank, to announce my arrival, inquire for my brother, and excuse the delay caused by our perilous voyage. The Pascha received me kindly, and told me my brother had been ill, but was now recoverid, and busied with the sick in a neiglibouriiig tent. When the doctor and apothecary, having put on their uniform, entered, his face flushed with anger, and he sternly alluded to their having quitted their I'egiments and come by water; he then severely reprimanded them, saying, they had thrown the wliole burden of looking after the sick on Ilakim Jussuff (Dr. Joseph), and dismissed them with a Kedi-el-kanua (ka»'w)', such is the law). The merchant RoUet, ever a bashful man, now crept in to receive certain commissions, but I made him a sign that he would not come off well just at this moment, and we left the tent together; but later, I so recommended him to tiie Pascha, that, so far as his business went, he placed full confidence in him. I found my brother perfectly recovered, after having, almost by force, made my way into his tent, where he hud got over his most pressing business, having now little more to do than hand over tlie sick to Doctor Bellotti ; most of the cnses were opiithalmia and fever, from the soldiers being allowed no tents to shelter them ; these halving c 2