New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-07

~ to preserve good understanding with your
men ard beasts otherwise travel viii be task,
and a severe one, instead of recreation. After
MY men had tined in vain to misnterpret my con-
tract with them, IN order to take another road,
and had injured some ofmy baggage by negectins
the csmels drilled them into absolute obedience,
and found their character much improved there
by. With my dromedary, whom1 called About
Sin, 1.-THE Father OF Teeth from the great She&h
Of the Shukorec Arabs, to whom he originally be-
logged, was soon on good terms. He is beast
ofexcellent temper, with spice of humor IN his
composition, and is fond of playing practical
joke. But as | always pay them back, neither
party can complain, though Abou-Sin sometimes
gurgles out of his long throat string of Arabic
gutturas, in remonstrance. He comes up 10 my
tent and kneels at precisely the same hour every
evening, to get his feed OF dourra, and when am
at breakfast always holds his lips pursed up, ready
to take the pieces Of bread give him. bly, men,
whom agreed to provide with food during the
journey, are RECALLED every day with mutton and
mareesa, the two only really good things TO be
found in Soudan. A fat sheep costs piastres 40
cents and we kill one every three days. Thc
meat is of excellent flavor. Mareesa ia a drink
peculiar TO TIE country. 1t is made of the coarse
grain called dourra, which is pounded into dour by
hand mixed with water, esd heated ever fire in
order to produce speedy fermentation. Ii is al
WAYS drank the day after being made, as it turns
sour on the third day. 1t is little stronger than
root beer and has a taste similar to wheat bras
unpleasant on the first trial and highly palatable
on the second. jar holding two gallons costs
one piastre, and as few families, however poor, are
without it, we always find plenty Of it for salO in
the villages. IL is nutritious, promotive Of diges-
ton. and our experience goes to prove is not only
harmless but most wholesome drink in this sti-
fling climate. There is another beverage, called
Bii1iI, made from wheat which is stronger and has
pungent flavor The people in general are re-
markably temperate, bus sailors and camel-men
are often not content without arakee, sort Of
weak brandy made from dates. have heard this
song sung so often that cannot choose but re-
collect the words II is in the Arabic jargon of
Soudan:
"E-toombak sheraboo dowaia,
90 ell karafeen ed dowa ii es sufaia,
90 ell arakee leghetoO monnnsa,
Dom bilbil oukkoosoo burrsia
Tobacco smoke in the pipe and niareesa is
medicine to the sujaia n. E. the bag of palm hbers
through which it is straincd.) but arakee makes
me perfectly contented, and then ! will not even
look at bilbll.
The third day after leaving khartoum, reached
the mountains of Gerri, through which the Nile
breaks his way in a narrow pass. The aka6a, or
desert road which We were obliged to take IN order
TO reach the river again, is six hours in length,
through a wild. stony tract, covered with immense
boulders of granite, hurled and heaped together IN
the same chaotic manner as is exhibited in the
rocks between AssOuan and PhlG. After passing
the range, wide plain again opened before us, the
course of the Nile marked in its centre by the dark
er hue of the nebbuks and sycamores, rising above
the long gray belt sof thorn-trees The mountains
which iucose the fallen temples of Mesowoorat
and Maya, appeared far to the east. The banks OF
the river here are better cultivated than further up
the stream. The wheat which was just sproat-
ing, during my upward journey, was now two feet
high and rolled before the wind in waves OF dark,
intense, burning green. The brilliancy of color IN
these mid African landscapes Is Truly astonishing
The north wind, which blew the sand fIriOusly
in our faces during the first three days OF the
Journey, ceased at this point, and the weather be-
came once more intensely hot. The first two or
three hours Of the morning were, nevertheless, de-
licous. The temperature was mild, and there
was June-like breeze which bore far and wlde
the delicate odor of the mimOsa blossoms. The
trees wee large and thick, as on the White Nile
forming long. orchardlike belts between the grain
fields and the thOrny clunps of the desert On
| the fifth day reached the large town Of I'll Me-
temma. nearly opposite Shendy, and the capital
Of a negro kingdom, before the Egyptian usurpa-
| ton. The road, on approaching,it leads over
narrow plain, covered with shrub resembling
heather. bordered OF one side by the river, and on
| other by long range Of bare red sand-hllls. we
iourneyed for more than three hours, passing
point after point of the hills, only to find other
spur. stretching out ahead OF us. From the IN
| tense heat was very anxious to reach I'll hetem-
ma and WAS not little rejoicsd when discerned
grove of date trees, which was pointed ont to
me from Shendy, a month before, as the iand'
mark of the place. Soon cluster OF build
ings eppeared on the sandy slopes, but as we ap'
rroscbed | saw they were ruins We turned
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another point. and reached another group OF ID
! l,ls ,pd clay houses-ruins also. Another point
and more ruins, and so for more than mile before
,,e reached the town, which commences at th'
last spur of the hills, and extends along the plan
for a mile and half
1t is long mass Of One-story buildings, an'
the most miserable place Of its size that haV
econ in Central Africa. There is no bazaar, 6u
an omen market-place, where the people 9't o" tn
ground and sell their produce, consisting OF doura
butter dates, onions, tobacco and fe" gras
mats. There may be mosque in the place, ou
IN the course of my rambe through the streets,
saw nothing that looked like one. Half the house
appeared to be uninhabitedr and the natives "er
bideous mixture Of the red tribes OF hahass an
Shygheea and the negro races OF Soudan. a lev
people were moving lazily through the dusty an
e,,bV lanes but the greater portion were slttu