He had victimized Abed, who was naturally inclined to believe his false statements, and get off to the ivory market.

His people came from the Kuss country in the west with sixteen tusks, and a great many slaves bought and not murdered for.

The river is rising fast, and bringing down large quantities of aquatic grass, duckweed, &c.

The water is a little darker in colour than at Cairo.

People remove and build their huts on the higher forest lands adjacent.