The command of Mahomet Wed Ageeb is very extenſive. It reaches from this paſſage of the river at Halifoon on the ſouth, as far as Wed Baal a Nagga on the north, and to the eaſt as far as the Red Sea, though a great part of thoſe Arabs have been in rebellion, and have not paid their tax for ſome years. His command on the weſtward of the river reaches to Korti, all over the deſert of Bahiouda, though lately the Beni Gerar, Beni Faifara, and Cubba-beefli, have expelled the ancient Arabs of Bahiouda, who pretend now only to be the ſubjects of Kordofan. He has alſo the charge of levying the tribute of horſes from Dongola, in which conſiſts the great ſtrength of Sennaar.
Halfaia is the limit of the rains, and is ſituated upon a large circular peninſula ſurrounded by the Nile from S. W. to N. W. that is, at all the points of W. It is half a mile, or ſomething more, from the river. This peninſula contains all their ſown land, and is not watered by the river, but by what is raiſed from the ſtream by wheels turned by oxen. Halfaia conſiſts of about three hundred houſes; their principal gain is from a manufacture of very coarſe cotton cloth, called Dimour, which ſerves for ſmall money through all the lower parts of Atbara. There are palm-trees at Halfaia, but they produce no dates. The people here eat cats, alſo the river horſe and the crocodile, both of which are in great plenty. Halfaia, by many altitudes of the fun and liars, was found to be in lat. 15° 45′ 54″, and in long. 32° 49′ 15″ eaſt from the meridian of Greenwich.
On the 29th, at ſix o'clock in the morning we left Halfaia, and continued our journey about 3 miles and a half further, when we came to two villages, a ſmall one to the
