OUR WHEREABOUTS.

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Our whereabouts— Shekh Mohammed Abd e'-Djebal— My residence at Abdom— Cross ing the River — A Superb Landscape — The Town of Merawe — Ride to Djebel Berkel — The Temples of Napata — Ascent of the Mountain — Ethiopian Panorama — Lost and Found — Tho Pyramids — The Governor of Merawe — A Scene in the Divan — The Shekh and I— The Governor Dines with me— Ruins of the City of Napata— A Talk about Religions— Engaging Camels for Wadi-Halfa — The Shekh's Parting Blessing; "Under the palm-trees by the river's side." — Keats.

Abdom, tlie friendly haven into which I had drifted after an eight days' voyage in the fiery sea of the Desert, is a village on the eastern hank of the Nile, which, after passing Ahou-Hammed, flows to the south-west and south until > , 7 caches