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Burckhardt's Nubian Travels, 4to. (Continued.)

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The account of Taka is highly cu*

Taka is as celebrated for its herds of cattle

cat the flesh of birds, and I several times
heard them sneeringly call the Egyptians rious
"bird-eaters." On resuming our journey
we entered the sandy desert in the direction
of S. E. b. E. In the afternoon the Souakin
traders chased with their swiftest dromedaries
a wild beast which they descried at a dis-
tance; they called it in Arabic, Homar el
Wahsh, which means the wild ass. It did
not come near enough to be distinctly seen;
but they say it is of the size of a Hyæna,
with a head and tail much resembling those
deserts they speak of an animal to which they
of an ass it has no horns. In the Arabian
give the same name; whether it is really the
same animal I am not certain. The ground
was covered in every direction with innumer-
able footsteps of the Gazelle species, some
of which appeared to belong to animals of a
much larger size than any I had yet seen.
Next day an unexpected sight struck
our traveller's eyes, and we feel deeply
his regret at not being able to explore
the object thus mentioned.-

as for its Dhourra; they are very numerous; have all humps on the back, like those on the cows are particularly handsome, and the Nile; they serve as in Darfour and Kordofan, for a medium of exchange. The price of a large fat cow was four pieces of Damnmour, or ninety-six Mouds of Dhourra, which is equivalent to about two Erdeybs, The price of a strong or thirty bushels. camel is one fourth more. As it was now the hottest part of the year, just before the period of the rains, when the ground is quite the annual custom, the herds had been sent parched up, several months before to the Eastern desert, I saw few cattle." According to where they feed in the mountains and fertile valleys, and where springs of water are found. After the inundation, they are brought back to the plain. The camels of Taka are highly prized, from an idea that the young shoots of the acacia trees, on which they feed in the woods, render them stronger than camels fed with other food. The people use the skin of the long neck of the camel, sowed up on one side, and left open on the other, as sacks to transport their grain in when travailing; their form is very convenient for loading. The quantity of cattle would be even greater than it is, were it not for the wild beasts which inhabit the forests, and destroy great numbers of them; the most common of these are lions, and what they call tigers, but which I suppose to be leopards or panthers. I never saw any of these animals, but I heard their howlings every night. The flocks of the encampment, near which a few sheep are always kept, are driven in the evening into the area within the circle proach the hill, and encamped at about half of tents, and the openings in the thorny enan hour's distance from it. As soon as we closure already described, are filled up with had alighted, and placed our baggage in a heap of thorns. No one dares stir out of order, I started for the hills, in great eager- this entrenchment during the night; it is ness to examine those Ethiopian remains; sufficiently strong to be impenetrable to the but a loud cry from the Souakin people wild beasts, which prowl about it the whole brought me back. "The whole country," of the night, filling the air with their dismal they said, "is infested by the peasants of howls, which are answered by the incessant Goz Radjeb; you will not be able to move barking of the dogs within. It rarely hapa hundred paces alone, without being at-pens that either lions or tigers are killed in tacked." Indeed several suspicious looking these countries; when such an occurrence persons were seen lurking among the trees happens, it is in self-defence; for the inhathat lined the banks of the river farther on. bitants having no other weapons than swords My companions added, that the hill was in- or lances, have little chance of conquering habited by Hadendoa robbers, who lived in the king of the forest, of which this district caverns in it, and were at war with all their appears to be a favourite hauut Some of the neighbours. As they could have no interest Shikhs, but very few, have lions skins in in deceiving me, I readily believed them, and their tents; they appeared to be of middling returned, not with the intention of aban- size; but if the testimony of the Hadendoa doning my design, but in the hope of being may be credited, a lion here sometimes able the next day to concert measures with reaches the size of a cow. Persons are fresome of the country people who might come quently killed by them. In the woods wolves, to barter with us, for their accompanying gazelles, and hares abound; and the Bedoume to the ruins, which I was then fully de-ins relate stories of serpents of immense size, termined to visit, whatever might be the which often devour a sheep entire. The consequences. Unfortunately I was deceived fiercest animals, however, that inhabit these in my expectations; and I shall never forgive myself for the momentary irresolution which prevented me from examining the most interesting object which occurred during my journey.

of the Bisharcin; this is the most southern

The next tribe whose territory caravan crossed, was the Hadendoa, who seem to be only less infamous, but not less odious than their neighbours. On the 1st of June they passed Om Daoud, a large encampment of the tribe of Nefidjab boundary of the Bisharye dominions, and the beginning of the territory of the Hadendoa, a very powerful tribe, of which I shall again have occasion to speak; the son of their Shikh had come with us from Shendy, and we had therefore little to fear, except from their pilfering habits. The caravan halted near the village, and I walked up to the huts to look about me. My appearance on this occasion, as on many others, excited an universal shriek of surprise and horror, espe- In approaching the river, I saw at a discially among the women, who were not a ance, two insulated hills close to each other little terrified at seeing such an outcast of in the plain, and at a short distance from the nature as they consider a white man to be, river; and when we drew nearer to them, I peeping into their huts, and asking for a little was extremely surprised to see upon the water or milk. The chief feeling which my summit of the largest a huge fabric of ancient appearance inspired I could easily perceive times. Being naturally short-sighted, and to be disgust, for the Negroes are all firmly my vision having been further impaired by persuaded that the whiteness of the skin is two attacks of ophthalmia while I was in the effect of disease, and a sign of weakness; Upper Egypt, I could not trust my eyes, and and there is not the least doubt, that a white therefore asked my companions what it was man is looked upon by them as a being that appeared like a building upon the hill. greatly inferior to themselves. At Shendy "Don't you see," they replied, "that it is the inhabitants were more accustomed to the a church?" (Kenise, a name often applied by sight if not of white men, at least of the light the Egyptians to their ancient temples, which brown natives of Arabia; and as my skin was they ascribe to the Christians)" and no doubt much sun-burnt, I there excited little sur-the work of infidels." We continued to apprise. On the market-days, however, Loften terrified people, by turning short upon them, when their exclamation generally was: "Owez bilahi min es-sheyttan erradjim :" (God preserve us from the devil!) One day, after bargaining for some onions with a country girl in the market at Shendy, she told me, that if I would take off my turban and shew her my head, she would give me five more onions; I insisted upon having eight, which she gave me; when I removed my turban she started back at the sight of my white closely shaven crown, and when I jocularly asked her whether she should like to have a husband with such a head, she expressed the greatest surprise and disgust, and swore that she would rather live with the ug

liest Darfour slave.

June 2d. We travelled this morning about four hours, in a south-east direction, over a plain of cultivable soil, though distant several miles from the river. No mountains were any where visible. We rested during the mid-day hours in a grove of Nebek, Syale, and Allobe trees. I here observed several unknown birds; one was of the size and shape of a black-bird, with a long tail striped with white. I saw some large crows with a white neck. The Bisharein seemed to have no names in their language for these different birds, amongst them it is a great scandal to

to fire-arms. A few Arabians sometimes pass * The Souakin merchants are equally unused this way armed with matchlocks, in company with the Souakin caravans, on their road to Shendy or Sennaar.

woods are the Bedjawy, or inhabitants of The Souakin people assured me that no oath | which they carry their snuff. The Souakin Bedja, themselves. Great numbers of asses can bind a man of Taka; that which alone traders sell here also natron, which they are kept by all these Bedouins. In the they hesitate to break is when they swear, bring from Shendy: all kinds of spices, c>mountains of Negeyb, the Giraffa is said to By my own health." A Hadendoa seldom pecially cloves, which are in great demand be very numerous. I saw a piece of the skin scruples to kill his companion on the road in among the Hallenga; incense, beads, and of one in the tent of a Hadendoa. Locusts order to possess himself of the most trifling hardware; but the chief articles are tobacco, are always seen in Taka, which seems to be article of value, if he entertains a hope of Dammour, and cloves. Dhourra is taken their breeding-place, from whence they doing it with impunity; but the retaliation in exchange for all these articles, and is the spread over other parts of Nubia. However of blood exists in full force. Among the main object with the merchants from Souainnumerable their hosts may be, they appear Hallenga, who draw their origin from Abys- kin, because that place depends solely upon to be incapable of destroying the verdure of sinia, a horrible custom is said to attend the Taka for its supply of this necessary of life, this country, as sometimes happens in Egypt revenge of blood; when the slayer has been none, or very little, being cultivated in its and Syria. Those I saw were of the largest seized by the relatives of the deceased, a fa- neighbourhood. size, with the upper wings of a red, and the mily feast is proclaimed, at which the murlower of a yellow colour. The trees are full derer is brought into the midst of them, of pigeons, and crows in large flocks. I do bound upon an Angareyg, and while his not remember having seen any birds remark-throat is slowly cut with a razor, the blood able for their plumage. From the acacia trees gum arabic is collected, which is sold at Souakin to the Djidda merchants; from Djidda it finds its way to Egypt; but it is of an indifferent quality, owing, probably, to the moisture of the soil: for the best gum is produced in the driest deserts.

is caught in a bowl, and handed round
amongst the guests, every one of whom is
bound to drink of it, at the moment the vic-
tim breathes his last. I cannot vouch for the
truth of this, although several persons as-
serted it to be a fact, and I heard no one
contradict it.

(To be continued.)

ARTS AND SCIENCES.

ROYAL INSTITUTION.

The operations for the season commenced with great vigour in Albemarle Street on Tuesday, when Mr. Millington The encampment where we remained con- Their own quarrels, and their national en- began a course of lectures on Experisisted of from one hundred and fifty to two mity to the Bisharein, with whom they are mental Philosophy, to be continued hundred tents, divided into four Douars, or never known to be at peace, have rendered twice a week. The plan he has circles; these were separated from each other the people of Taka a warlike nation. They marked out for himself seems to be by fences lower than the general thorny en- use the same weapons as the inhabitants of closure, by which the whole were surrounded. the Nile countries; bows and arrows are unone of infinite importance; and when we consider the clearness of his arrangeIn every settlement in Taka, as at Shendy known amongst them. Their chiefs keep and Atbara, there are several Bouza huts, orses, and arm these ves with coats of ments, and the extent of his information, and many public women, with some of mail. They are said to be brave, but I ne- we are led to anticipate a most lumiwhom even the most respectable of the Sou- ver saw scars on any part of their bodies ex- nous and interesting developement of akin merchants took up their quarters. These cept the back. The same remark applies to the subject undertaken. Mr. Brande women seemed to me to be more decent in all the people of Nubia, where I have never of course resumes his chemical illustratheir behaviour than those of the same des- seen any individuals with scars upon their tions; but the most novel and attraccription in the countries on the Nile; at least breasts, while the backs of most of the men they seldom appeared abroad during the day, bear the marks of large wounds, in which tive feature in the programme for this whereas the others were seen walking about they seem to pride themselves. The shield year, is a series of lectures upon Poetry at all hours. Both sexes wear the common is said to protect the sides from blows. Iby one no less competent to perform Nubian dress, a Dammour shirt, and a cloke found a custom here, which in my journey the task admirably than Mr. Thomas of the same stuff thrown over the shoulders. towards Dúngola I had been told of, as ex- Campbell. A course of lectures on BoI observed one peculiarity amongst the wo-isting among the Bisharein; when a young tany, by Sir J. B. Smith and another on men, that of wearing brass or silver rings on man boasts of his superior prowess, in the presence of another, the latter draws his Architecture by J. Soane, Esq. complete knife and inflicts several flesh-wounds in his the whole; and if we reflect on the own arms, shoulders, and sides; he then great and various talent engaged, we gives the knife to the boaster, who is bound must say that the present bids fair to in honour to inflict still deeper wounds upon be the most distinguished era of this his own body, or yield for ever in reputation valuable Institution. to his antagonist. They are certainly a strong and hardy race of men; and are more robust and muscular than any Bedouins I ever saw. During winter they live almost wholly upon flesh and milk, tasting very little bread; and it is to this they attribute their strength.

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their toes; many of them wear leathern
aprons, instead of the Dammour cloth which
the Nubian women generally wrap round
the middle; the same custom prevails amongst
the Bedouins of the Hedjaz. In their tents
they suspend various ornaments of white
shells (Woda), from the Red Sea, intermixed
with black ostrich feathers. All the women
go unveiled, and the most respectable think
it no shame whatever to receive a man in
their tent, and to be seen chatting with him
during the husband's absence. This, how
ever never happened to me, for whenever I
presented myself before a tent, the ladies The principal article sold by the foreign
greeted me with loud screams, and waved merchants at Taka, is tobacco, as well the
with their hands for me to depart instantly. produce of Sennaar as of Persia and the
Nothing astonished them more than my Yemen: that which comes from the latter
beard and mustachios; for the beards of the countries is called here Suratty, and is the
Bedouins never grow long or thick, and they yellow leaved sort called Tombac in the
cut their mustachios very short, it being a Hedjaz and Egypt, and which is smoked in
disgrace amongst them to wear them long, the East in the Persian pipe or Nargyle;
and considered as great a mark of slovenli-being much stronger than the Sennaar to-
ness as an unshorn beard among Europeans.bacco, it is preferred in Taka principally for
the manufacture of snuff, of which the
Treachery is not considered here as crimi-people are very fond; the snuff is prepared
nal or disgraceful, and the Hadendoa is not by mixing natron or salt with the pulverised
ashamed to boast of his bad faith, whenever tobacco. No man or woman is seen without
it has led to the attainment of his object. a small gourd, the size of a goose's egg, in

ORIGINAL POETRY.

By Correspondents.
SONNET.

The sun has sunk behind the western hill,

'er whose dark summit comes the ev'ning gray; The murky mists which all the valley fill, The songsters sleep with cach its head reclin'd Hang like the pall of the departed day. Beneath the shelter of its downy wing; No sound is floating on the peaceful wind, Save the soft murmurs of the bubbling spring. But hark! I hear the distant village chime, Breaking the silence of his lower sphere. It justly warns me of the lapse of time, In accents smooth and soothing to my ear, Telling that years roll on, nor wait for me, Till all be lost in dark eternity. Leeds, Jan. 8.

W. H. T.

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"Sweet Cell,
Where Joy is felt like Sadness, and our Grief
A Melancholy pleasant to be borne"-WILSON,

There is gloom in the air, and my spirit within
Is rayless and heavy with care:

For I leave the charm'd light of an eye that
could win

A soul from the shroud of despair.
To Him who in loneliness dreams o'er the past,
And glides o'er the present in fashionless
peace,

How bright are the fugitive visions that cast,
A nerve-thrilling flash o'er the shadowy waste,
Where he slumbers in fancied release '

Yet what hath "the world," save that gleam, to
console

To cheer the dulness of our Indian day,
And chase the foggy mist of spleen away,
Who-in the van of taste and feeling came,
To aid its struggles into life and fame?
Who-deigned to smile upon its infant course,
And teach its efforts confidence and force?
Oh, need the muse its patroness proclaim,
When every heart is swelling with the name!
A name a thousand thoughts at once connect,
With all we love, we boast of, and respect'

Yes, from the loftier claims that asked her

care,

The hours that rank for Charity could spare;
The leisure ever prompt to seek distress,
To soothe affliction and despair repress;
Ev'n from the luxury of doing good,
The Muse, a Loudon once not vainly wooed
To listen to the lighter strains-designed
To mend the manners and to raise the mind,
And grace with Fancy's gerus and flowery
The graver attributes of human life,

himself out of doors; he never walked out but on Fridays to the prayers of noon, in the great Mosque. One of the before mentioned dervishes told me that there had been a great deal of talking about this Aly Bey, at Damascus and Hamar; they suspected him of being a Christian, but his great liberality and the pressing letters which he brought to all people of consequence, stopped all further enquiry. He was busily employed in arranging and putting in order his journal during the two months of his stay at Aleppo.

THE DRAMA.

KING'S THEATRE.-Last Saturday Rossini's Comic Opera of Cinderella, La Cenestrife,rentola, was produced at this theatre; and a Signor Torri made his debut as the Prince of Salerno. The story differs from the ori

Propitious winds across the willing main,
Wa t swift her presence to these realms again;ginal in making the Prince visit the abode of

And now again she comes once more to cheer
The Muse her fostering favour helped to rear;
And shall that Muse be mute? What though no
fire

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ALY BEY (OR Badia). The slave of its spurious delightsThe author of the celebrated Travels in What bliss at his heart, or what beam in his Africa, is thus described in Burkhardt's Trasoul, vels.

If sympathy lur'd some dear form to my side,
To grace and enliven my cell!

Jan. 2.

C.

Cinderella's father, Don Magnifico, (Ambro-
getti) changing characters with his valet,
Dandini (Placci); in other respects we have
the proud sisters, the ball, and the marriage
of Cinderella (Bellochi). The opera went
off extremely well. The music is, in gene-
ral, very good, and the overture beautiful.
The new singer has a pleasing tenor voice,
and acquitted himself so as to give entire sa-
tisfaction. He has a great deal of the man-
ner of Braham; but is by no means equal
to him either in power or discrimination.
In such comparisons he must indeed be con-
tent with the praise of a second rate artist;
and especially when his style, as it sometimes
does, resembles that of a pupil rather than a
master. His acting is above the usual stamp
of musical performers: his last song was
finely executed and encored, and he sang it
better the second time than the first-a proof
that diffidence might be the cause of his not
fully displaying his abilities. Madame Bel-
lochii was in high voice and sang charmingly.
Ambrogetti was great in his part. Romero,
who personated a pilgrim, is but an indiffe-
rent actor, and a worse singer. Miss Mori
gains ground in every new character; and
Mrs. Gatti's voice and action were well
suited to the other sister, Thisbe. We have
no doubt that the opera will improve
much on repetition; and in that expectation
first representation.
content ourselves with this short notice of its

Another traveller of a singular desHis weary noviciate requites? cription passed here two years ago. He Since to soar on the pinion of fame is denied, called himself Aly Bey, and professed to be Oh grant me in honour'd seclusion to dwell;-born of Tunisian parents in Spain, and to And well could I deem that my fate were sup- have received his education in that country. plied, Spanish appears to be his native language, besides which he spoke French, a little Italian, and the Moggrebyn dialect of Arabic, but badly. He came to Aleppo by the way of Cairo, Yaffa, and Damascus, with the strongest letters of recommendation from the Spanish Government to all its agents, and be a particular friend of the Prince of the an open credit upon them. He seemed to Peace, for whom he was collecting antiques; COVENT GARDEN.-On Tuesday the "ever and from the manner in which it was known pleasing ever new" play, As you like it, inthat he was afterwards received by the Span- troduced to the public an aspirante for draish Ambassador at his arrival in Constanti-matic honours, hitherto unknown upon the nople, he must have been a man of distinction. The description of his figure and what he related of his travels, called to my recolleetion the Spaniard Badia and his miniature in your library (this letter is addressed to Sir J. Banks). He was a man of middling size, long thin head, black eyes, large nose, long black beard, and feet that indicated the former wearing of tight shoes. He professed to have travelled in Barbary, to have crossed the Lybian Desert between Barbaryand Egypt, and from Cairo to have gone to Mekka and back. He travelled with castern magnifince, but here he was rather say of showing

EAST INDIA THEATRICALS.

At Calcutta there is a Theatre, called The Chowringhee Theatre, which has for the last five years been under the direction of an Amateur Dramatic Society. It is principally supported by subscription; and in July last, its general report was so satisfactory, that the proprietors renewed the management in the same hands for five years more. Thanks were voted to the amateur performers; and about a week before, one of these gentlemen spoke an address, which

is thus introduced in the Government Gazette.

"The Theatrical amusements at Chowringhee on Friday last, were honoured by the presence of the Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings. Her Ladyship was received by the audience with enthusiasm, and in a manner that strongly marked the hearty welcome with which her return to India is hailed. When the curtain drew up, the following appropriate address was delivered by one of our most distinguished ama

teurs :

"When in these walls the Drama reared its head, And kindling radiance from its cradle shed;

stage. The newspapers state her to be a Miss Wensley, and of respectable family in Somersetshire; and indeed, her lady-like appearance and manners, allowing for the embarrassment of her situation, seem to justify the report. The part chosen for her debut was Rosalind, removed, undoubtedly, by several of its later occupants, from the perilous and trying difficulty of its preceding contrast, but still an arduous and hazardous undertaking. To counterbalance this, as well as the timidity which the occasion naturally creates, there was a very benevolent dispo sition to applause in a marked number of the

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POTATOES. According to the most recent | Monday, 10-Thermometer from 17 to 32. inquiries, naturalists declares Lima to be the Barometer from 30, 67, to 30, 61. true country whence potatoes were propaWind N. E.-Morning clear, the rest of gated. They are worth all the mines at Peru.

Tuesday, 11-Thermometer from 23 to 35.
Barometer 30, 15 to 29, 86.
day.
Wind S.W.-Cloudy; snowing most of the
Wednesday, 12-Thermometer from 17 to 28.

Barometer from 30, 15 to 30, 35 little snow at times, till the evening, when it Wind E. b. N. and N. E. -Cloudy, with a became clear.

JOHN ADAMS.

GENERAL ACCOUNT FOR THE PAST YEAR, 1819.

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