Mr. HOLROYD'S Journey to Kordofan. 184 [1837. other on the 14th of the same month, at 4 in the afternoon. That on the !2nd commenced more gradually than that on the 14th. In both these hurricanes the wind was from the S.E. On the 2nd, after blowing tremendously for twenty minutes, the atmosphere was of a blood-red colour, succeeded by total darkness: this lasted for a quarter of an hour, when it began to be lighter, and, at the end of two hours from the commencement, subsided a little, though the win(l blew hard all the afternoon and during the night. The air was charged with fine sand for two or three days afterwards. The thermometer during the hurricane was 102?.

On the 14th, while riding near the river, I saw the second storm approach, and it appeared as if an immense chain of san(lstone rocks was driven before the wind. I had just time to reach the residence of Signor Boreani, when it overtook me, and darkness came on instantaneollsly. This lasted for ten minutes, when the atmosphere assumed a deep-red colour, becoming gradually lighter. It was nearly two hours before the hurricane subsided, and it was followed by a slight shower of rain: on the following day the air was loaded with sand. The thermometer at 2 P.M. On this day was 104?. These winds occur two or three ti1nes in every spring, and the inhabitants call them .dohr. The Arabs assured me that these storms had not visite(l Khartum for more than three years.

May 18. I left Whartum; on the 622nd arrive(l at E1 Metem1neh; and on the day following I crossed over to Shendi. Here I remainel until the Gncl of June, and during the interval ma(le an excursion to the tetnples of Musawwerat, E1 Auweh Tayyib and Kenisat el Kerlaekan. On the i 1th I reachel Berber, having stopped a few days at E1 Bekrauwiyah, to visit the Pyramids of Bai and E1 Jelasafrat, to which M. Linant has given the name of Gabina.

The greater portion of the lan(l between Khartum and Berber is uncultivatedy though it might be advantageously used for the production of grain, tobacco, cotton, and indigo. The inhalJitants have been compelled to serve as soldiers, or have abscontle(l into the desert, in order to avoid it, and there is great room for colonization. They are in the lowest state of degraelat.ion antl or)plession, and are ad(licte(l to lying to an inconceivable e}tent. They entertain the greatest fear of a person wearing the tarbush, or red cap,imistaking every one with this badge br a Turk; an(l whatever a traveller requires he must get done by compulsion.

Their services are not to be obtainel by promises of money or by kindness: they have been so often deceived by their superiors, that they expect the same from travellers; and I never, fbut with one solitary exception, found that the word of a native of the Beled-es-Sudan was to be de;?ended upon.