Mr. HOLROYD'S Jo?urney to Kordofan. [1837. 188 whilst reposing at the wells. I therefore deemed it prudent to put on a watch during the night: we were not, however, molested.

July 3. - -We left Bir Sarniyah at a 4 past 6 A.M., and shortly afterwards passed a cemetery of the Mancisir Arabs. The sun was so hot and oppressive, that, after travelling 2 h. 50 Inin., we were obliged to stop until the afternoon, when we proceeded for 2 h. 30 min. more. Thermometer 102?. We travelled for 6 h. 30 min. on the following day. July b. We resumed our journey at 20 min. to ;) A.M., and in 2 h. 50 min. arrived at Ed-dukEyet, a village situated on the Nile. Soon after leaving Bir Sarniyah, the stratum is coarse grey granite, with veins of quartz running from S.W. to N.E., and this structure continues to the Nile.

T was delighted once more to arrive at the river, more especially as passing this desert is very severe travelling, and doulJly so to me, suSering as I was from a violent attack of dysentery, which would not give way to any remedy that I adopted, though, for the benefit of travellers in Africa, I may state that I found it universally yield in other cases in the course of a few hours to the internal use of ipecacuanha, in about the dose of 3 or 4 grains every 4 hours. With me this remedy produced no eXect, but, on the contrary, aggravated the symptoms, an(l I consequently tried laudanum, and partially succeeded in controlling it until I arrive(l at Cairo. From Berber to Ed-dukayet scarcely a tree is to be founel along the route capable of affording the least shade, if we except those in the vicinity of the wells: the trees in fact are little more than bushes. Fortunately, for the first 7 or 8 days, the sun was slighly obscured by clouds, or the heat would have been insuSerable. Of all the journeys I have made, this desert is the most wild, ari(l, comfortless, and uninteresting; and I should strongly recommend future travellers to take the line from E1 Metemmeh to Jebel Berkel in preference to that from Berber.

The whole of this desert is thinly peopled: from Berber to 13ir Shimail it is inhabited by the Hasaniyeh Arabs; from Blr Shimail for two-thirds of the way to the river, lJy Manasir Arabs; and the last third, towards the Nile, by Seikiyahs.

At Ed-dukayet the placidity of the stream of the Nile is broken ly rocks; and here is a slight rapid. At 1 day's journey from hence, higher up the river, is the fourth cataract.

At l past 4 P.M. I left Ed-dukayet: in l hour 30 minutes we passed the village of E1 Bellal on our right, and in 30 minutes afterwards arrived at the Pyramids of Nuri. In l0 minutes from the Pyramids we reache(l E1 Jerayib, and I repaired to the house of the Sheikh, where I remained all night.