1837.] Jebel Nubah- - Umm-hajir El Kat4. 181 Six or seven days' journey to the S.W. of E1 'Obeid is Jebel NblJah, whence the Paslla used to carry off slaves annually. The inhabitants of this chain are, generally speaking, h3wndsome, and, if they are not frequent]y sold from hand to hand, turn out good and faithful domestics. They are dark, though not black, with much less of the negro feature than the Shilluks, Denkawis, or inhaltitants of Dar-fur. I observed many of the women from Jebel Nubah with perforations in their ears and chin, into which small pieces of wood had been introduced; and the females of Jebel Minmin, an ofEset of Jel)el Ndbah, extract the incisors of the lower jaw, a practice adopted by the Shilluks and people of Denkah: the men do not observe the same custom. The Nubavis salute each other with the two first fingers of the right hand, snapping them twice with those of their friend. The thermometer ranged from 90? to 97? Fahr. at 2 P.M. in the shade during my stay at E1' Oleid. Ajpril 15. After sixteen days spent at E1 'Obeid I quitted it at half-past 4 P.M. on my return to Korsi, and arrived there at a quarter to 7 A.M., on the 16thn having rested only 1+ hour on the road during the night. Having determined to procee(l by the desert of Sakrah, I took a guide from hence to the village of that name. In 2 hours from Korsi I arrived at Umm-hajir and was obliged to stop, as the Haji was suffering from bruises which he had received in a fall from his dromedary on our leaving Korsi. The people of Umm-hajir were kind, willing, and obliging: they gave 1ne, immediately upon my arrival, the best house in the village, and provided me without delay with a kid, fovvls, milk, straw, dhllkhn-bread, &c. April 17. I left Umm-hajir at 10 mirlutes to 5 P.M. In ] hour we arrived at the village of Rokab Ardam; in 1 hour 30 minutes at Gamrah Hamdasid; in 50 minutes, after passing E1 Fashor, we reached Wa(l Berri; and in 2 hours 5 minutes from thence we arrived at Umm-balaghi, where we rested for the night. Here we found comfortable quarters and procured provisions without difficultyas soon as the inhabitants perceived that it was my intention to pay for everything I required. The soil from Korsi to Umm-balaghi is very light and sandy: it is adapted for lhukhn, and a great deal is grown. After leaving Korsi the best water is found at Umm-hajir and Rokab Ardam. II1 all the other villages the water is brackish, and it is slightly so at Ummbalaghl: our journey to-day was 5 hours 25 minutes. April 18.-At 5 P.M. we left Umm-bilagh; and in 1 hour arrived at E1 Kau; here iron-ore is found -close to the surface of the ground, and is excavated and wrought for the government. Two hours farther we passed E1 Margler, a populous nllage for this part of the country, where I oleserved a schoolmaster teacho 2