. Nubia and Abyssinia: comprehending their civil history, antiquities, arts, religion, literature, and natural history . ccompanied theFrench author, whose work is not only the most recent, butalso the most satisfactory on this branch of our geographicalsurvey. In truth, there is no other publication in the lan-guages of the West to which we can have recourse; andwe may add, that no Frank traveller in the memory of manhas ever penetrated into those distant provinces on the BlueRiver, which about ten years ago were traversed by theEgyptian troops in their celebrated expedition against themeieks
. Nubia and Abyssinia: comprehending their civil history, antiquities, arts, religion, literature, and natural history . ccompanied theFrench author, whose work is not only the most recent, butalso the most satisfactory on this branch of our geographicalsurvey. In truth, there is no other publication in the lan-guages of the West to which we can have recourse; andwe may add, that no Frank traveller in the memory of manhas ever penetrated into those distant provinces on the BlueRiver, which about ten years ago were traversed by theEgyptian troops in their celebrated expedition against themeieks of the south. It may be noticed, that before thearmy commenced their march, the Pasha Ibrahim, after-ward so well known in Greece, had joined his brother witha reinforcement, and was prepared to share with him theperils of a new campaign. It was on the oth of December, 1821, that these chiefsleft Sennaar at the head of their respective divisions, andproceeded along the western bank of the Abyssinian a few days they separated; Ishmael keeping nearthat stream and the other holding more to the westward, in. NUBIA AND ABYSSINIA. 63 the direction of the Bahr el Abiad. Ibrahim had twelvehundred men under his command; his colleague had fifteenhundred; while an equal number was left to guard thecamp and secure the new conquests. The march through a country impeded with wood wasnecessarily tedious, and seldom relieved by the occurrenceof any interesting event. The invaders, who were sup-plied with a few pieces of cannon, required the aid ofcamels and other beasts of burden, which on some occa-sions increased the difficulties of their passage. It was not,therefore, till the 1*7th day of the month that, after havingseen a number of inferior villages, they arrived at El Que-ribyn, a small town built on the declivity of a hill, andflanked on either side by a rocky eminence. After a number of observations, M. Cailliaud ascertainedthe position of this place to be in 12 degrees and
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