Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, from the year 1792 to 1798Browne, William George
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Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, from the year 1792 to 1798
Browne, William George
Egypt -- Description and travel; Sudan -- Description and travel; Syria -- Description and travel
The dotted lines which are seen in the general map, and seem to
mark with too much precision the extent of the empires _Bergoo_,
_Baghermi_, and _Kordofân_, are chiefly designed to shew the relative
situation of those districts, and how they border on each other, or
on Fûr. The authority recurred to was only that of the inhabitants
of each country, who affirmed that their native empire extended so
many days from E. to W. and so many from N. to S. For the general
form of _Dar-Fûr_ the authority is somewhat stronger; the precise
termination of that empire being accurately known to the several
reporters in each principal direction.
The writer, during his stay in Dar-Fûr, could never find the
variation of the needle greater than sixteen degrees W. In what
relates to that country, therefore, he has been guided by that
quantity of variation.
=No. II.=
=ITINERARIES.=
* * * * *
_From Cobbé to Sennaar._
Bearing. Days.
From Cobbé to Shawer 1½
From Shawer to Rîl S.S.E. 2
At Rîl is a large pool of water, never completely dry,
and a little to the E. of it a spacious house built by
Sultan Teraub, eldest brother of the present
Monarch.
From Rîl to Fadow } { 3
} E. {
From Fadow to Cawb } { 3
Near Cawb commences a ridge of hills, running N. and
S. or nearly so.
From Cawb to Dar Hummâr } { 2
} {
From Dar Hummâr to Emdî } Mean bearing E. { 3
} {
From Emdî to Kreiga } { 0¼
In each of these towns are Fukkara, who administer
justice.
From Kreiga to Ibeit[64] E. 1
Between Kreiga and Ibeit is Abu-Harrâs, a place
distant from the former three hours. Its neighbourhood
is laid out in gardens belonging to the people of
Dongola established there, in which they cultivate
onions, &c. The situation of Abu-Harrâs is in length
N. and S. and the wells which supply it with water are
to the S. of the town.
From Ibeit to Miteina 0½
From Miteina to Autosh 2
From Autosh to Yassîn 0½
Yassîn is a town of Fukkara.
From Yassîn to Breissa, _deep sand_ 0½
From Breissa to Cone 1
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