Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile in the Years 1768 Volume 4 of 6 reprint 1791 r.

Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile in the Years 1768 Volume 4 of 6 reprint 1791 r. - James Bruce

Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773, Volume 4 of 6.

The Arabs of Sennaar that are on bad terms with the governor of Atbara, fly hither across the desert to avoid the rapine and violence of that cruel tyrant. The arrival of these produces in an instant the greatest plenty at Ras el Feel; markets are held every where; cattle of all kinds, milk, butter, elephants teeth, hides, and several other commodities, are sold to a great amount.
The Arabs are of many different tribes; the chief are the Daveina, then the Nile. These, besides getting a good market, and food for their cattle and protection for themselves, have this great additional advantage, they escape the Fly, and consequently are not pillaged, as the rest of the Arabs in Atbara are, when changing abodes to avoid the havock made by that infect. In return for this, they constantly bring horses from Atbara, below Sennaar, for the king's own use, and for such of his cavalry who are armed with coats of mail, no Abyssinian horse, or very few at least, being capable of that burden.
Ayto Consu had many districts of land from his father Kasmati Netcho, as well as some belonging to his mother Ozoro Esther, which lay upon that frontier; it was called Ras el Feel, and had a fendick and nagareet, but, as it was governed always by a deputy who was a Mahometan, it had no rank among the great governments of the state.