[Footnote 62: Throughout Syria and Anatolia is established a kind of tolls called _ghafar_, demanded under pretence of keeping up the roads, and freeing them from robbers. A fixed sum is exacted from all Christians; and even an European, though furnished with a travelling firman, often finds it difficult to avoid paying them. Mohammedans pay what they please, or even nothing. In Syria these tolls are of no apparent use; the demand is somewhat considerable, the roads are not repaired, and there is no defence but immemorial custom. In Anatolia, where there are woods, some responsibility is attached to the office of toll-gatherer, in case a traveller is robbed; and the sum paid is more reasonable.] [Footnote 63: Musket and bayonet.] [Footnote 64: Ibeit is one of the principal towns of Kordofân; it is also the name of a small district.] [Footnote 65: The bearing of the road from Rîl to Hellet Allais is reported to be generally E. with very small variation.] Transcriber's note: pg xxxii Changed: Earthen ware of Ghennè to: Ghenné pg 63 Changed: the master (ربفا) to: ربنا pg 129 Changed: cielings of the chambers to: ceilings pg 219 Changed: with their corruption to: which pg 237 Changed: and and while the jelabs to: and while pg 290 Changed: between the the former to: between the former pg 368 Changed: articles of consumptioh to: consumption pg 399 Changed: the most unweildy to: unwieldy pg 408 Changed: the the walnut-tree to: the walnut-tree pg 422 Changed: which Rashib Pasha to: Raghib pg 439 Changed: thoughout Europe to: throughout pg 447 Changed: _Cubeabéa_ and _Rîl_ to: _Cubcabéa_ pg 448 Changed: _Cubeabéa_ to _Wara_ to: _Cubcabéa_ Other spelling inconsistencies have been left unchanged.