for that purpose, and on the lSth I arrived at Abfi Kharraz, on the E. bank, and at the junction of the Raha(l, an eastern tributary stream about half a mile wide, of blue water and rapid current. Here is a village of considerable size, and a station of 300 Moghrebi cavalry. Most of the houses are of straw, of a circular forms and resembling corn-stacks. There are only one or two, of sun-burnt brick, and the largest of these is that of the kashif. There is a market here daily; the wares are scanty, in small quantity, and of inferior quality. On the same day I crossed the river to Wad Me(llnah, and in an hour reached a military post, here one battalion of 800 men is stationed. ISere is a (laily market, small, and ill supplied with articles of a very coarse description.

There are two lar*,e bazars hel(l in the neighbourhood of Wad Medinah weekly; that to the northw-ard is at Salemiyah, the other, to the S.W., at Sorribah. To the latter I went on the 16th. The village is situated about 6 miles from the river, and the roa(l to it is over a rich plain. Dhurrah (millet or sorghum) is cultivate(l round it in patches after the kharif or rainy season is over, I)ut for want of capital and labour by far the greater proportion of the soil lies idle. This market was well attended, principally by Be(lowins, and the +rares exposed for sale much better than those at AlJu Kharraz and WAd Medinah. The banks of the river at W;i(l Medinah are about the same height as those of Khartum and I should think that the rise of the Nile is in the same y)roportion. Thermometer at Wad Medinah, Feb. 16, 88?.

On the 1 7th I left Wad Medirlah, and at 4 P.M., on the Glst, I had moored my boat immediately below SennEr. I took up my quarters in a house in the barracks, provided for me by the military commandant; and I was hardly settled in my new haloitation before the peasantry flocked in numbers with their manufactures to entleavour to seduce me into becoming a purchaser. Among their wares were mats with beautiful devices made of split (lom (Cucifera ThelJaica) leaves, and dyed of various colours, conical straw covers for plates in elegant patterns, silver zerfs (stan(ls for coSee-cups) in filagree, warlike weapons, spears, knives, &c. and lastly, hegabart, or amulets for security from every kind of disease and casualty, including the fatal fever of the country and the voracious jaws of the crocodile.

A small bazar is held daily at Sennar, and the principal articles for sale are butcher's meat, grease, oil, tobacco, dhurrah, bilbil, and merisah ;* but on Mondays and Thursdays a market attended by persons for many 1niles round is held at Kadero, a village to the S. Of Sennar, about 1 * mile from it, and between it and Jebel Mowil. That held on Mondays is the largest and best supplied. Near the place where the daily bazar of Sennar is held is a mosque, * Bilbil and merisah re kinds of beer made from fermented dhurrah.

168 Mr. HOLROYD'S Journey to Kordofan. [1837.