Musawwerat-Berber-Korrobz'. 1837.] 185 Berber is 3 place of some importance. iFrom its size, I should think that it contained 8000 or 9000 inhabitants. The houses are generally built of sun-burnt brick, of a square form; and many are enclosel in a small court-yar(l. It is the rendezvous of the slave-merchants from Sennar and Khartum, on their way to Cairo by the Great Nubian Desert; and a considerable traffic in slaves takes place there. There is a daily market: its present governor is 'Ablzas Agha, a very severe disciplinarian. Berber is a place of great resort of the Bishari Arabs. 'Abbas Agha has built a mosque, adorned with a lofty minaret. He also built some shops in the bazar, with the profits arising from the rent of which he pays the people employed about the mosque. The thermometer at Berber varied from 100? to 106?.

Befoxe I left Berber I was obliged to provide myself with skins to carry +vater from hence to Jebel Berkel, as it is not the custom of the country for the camel-drivers to furnish them. Fortunately there are two magazines, one of new and the other of old skins: from the ]atter I selected those required for my journey.

June 24.-Early in the morning I crossed from Berber to El Wol)sh, a village situated on the opposite side of the Nile; and at 6 P.M., on the same day, I set off for Meraweh; and in 3L hours I stopped for the night.

.tune 25. We proceeded at o A.M.; and in 1 hour passed some Bedowin tents. The part of the desert which they inhabit is called Abu Kharraz. In 2 hours from this place I rested until the evening, when I resumed my journey, and halted for the night after proceeding 3 hours farther. Our journey to-day 6 hours. June 26. We set off at o A.M. an(l in 2 hours !20 minutes arrive(l at Korrobi. Here is a small natural reservoir in the mountains, which are of a coarse grey granite. We found water left fromthe last year's rains, sufficient to {ill 7 skins, and, though it had a slightly earthy flavour, it was by no means unpalatable. The main feature of the country between the Nile and Korrobi is its flatness. After leaving the river we passed over alternate strata of sand and coarse gravel. At 6 hours' distance from the river we crossed a stratutn of coarse grey granite, and afterwards a fine thin slate, containing abundance of mica. Both the granite and slate are furrowed by large veins of primitive quartz. Afterwards sand and laroken quartz cover the desert as far as Korrobi, where, as I llave already mentione(l, there are mountains of coarse grey granite, broken in a rude, wild, fantastic manner; the masses, large and small, having assllmed, from some cause or other, round and oval forms. In the afternoon I left Korrobi, and stoppe(l for the night, after travelling 3 hours.

June 27. A\Teproceeded at 5 A.M., gnd in 3 hours passed some