. The crescent and the cross; or, Romance and realities of eastern travel. here) to the injured party, andsaid, Here is the man who slew your islander ; killhim, and depart in peace. Nay, replied the in-jured party, the slave only acted by the commandof his master ; we will have that masters life, or elsekill the Sheikh of the villaoe.* The Turkish orover-nor, in a rage, ordered them to leave his presence,which they did, asserting their rights and defying hispower. He proceeded to Dirr, procured a force of300 soldiers, descended the river to the island, attackedit in the nioht-time, and we arr
. The crescent and the cross; or, Romance and realities of eastern travel. here) to the injured party, andsaid, Here is the man who slew your islander ; killhim, and depart in peace. Nay, replied the in-jured party, the slave only acted by the commandof his master ; we will have that masters life, or elsekill the Sheikh of the villaoe.* The Turkish orover-nor, in a rage, ordered them to leave his presence,which they did, asserting their rights and defying hispower. He proceeded to Dirr, procured a force of300 soldiers, descended the river to the island, attackedit in the nioht-time, and we arrived the mornins: afterthis exhibition of Oriental justice. Passing Korosko and Dirr for the present unvisited,we continued our course to Ipsamboul. Even this weleft behind us, with the spacious ruined castle ofIbreem. To the left, from a perfectly level tract of sandstarted up some rocks of the most singular form ; oneof them was a pyramid nearly as perfect as that ofCheops ; another not unlike the shape of a sphinx,but all the workmanship of Nature. STRANGE ROCKS. 257. SINGULAR fiROUP OP ROCKS NEAR IPSAMDOOL. We encountered few incidents, and never met aboat upon the lonely river but one, which was crowdedwith slaves from Abyssinia. These captives are for themost part Christians when caught, but they are imme-diately Moslemised, lest—dying upon their passagefrom hardship or barbarity—Mahomet should losetheir souls, as well as the dealer their bodies. On the eighth day after leaving Philoe, we arrivedat Wady Haifa, about five miles to the south of theSecond Cataract, which is impassable to boats : wewere now about a thousand miles ft-oni the sea, andheld council as to our future proceedings. The debate was opened by a dis(juisition on thesavage beauties of Abyssinia, and the girafte and hippo-potamus shooting in the Meadows of Goudar. Theconfluence of the Blue and White Rivers at Khartoumwas o)il>f twenty-live days journey across the desert. 258 CHANGE OF PURPOSE. and t
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