[Footnote 58:  I must confess that I was much shocked and disgusted by this act on the part of the Pasha, especially as he had shown so many traits of humanity in the lower country, which was undoubtedly one of the principal causes of its prompt submission.  This execution was excused in the camp, by saying, that it would strike such terror as would repress all attempts at insurrection, and would consequently prevent the effusion of much blood.  It may have been consistent with the principles of military policy, but I feel an insurmountable reluctance to believe it.]

[Footnote 59:  They told me the names of these rivers, which I put down upon a sheet of paper devoted to preserving the names of some of the principal Maleks of the country.  In my journey back this paper has disappeared from among my notes and papers, which has been a subject of great vexation to me.]

[Footnote 60:  The people of Sennaar also believed that our boats could not pass the third cataract; and, therefore, their opinion with regard to the shellal at Sulluk is not to be relied on.]

[Footnote 61:  The rainy season in Sennaar, at least the commencement of it, such as I found it, may be thus described:  Furious squalls of wind in the course of one or two hours, coming from all points of the compass, bringing and heaping together black clouds charged with electric matter; for twelve or fifteen hours an almost continual roar of thunder, and, at intervals, torrents of rain; after which, the sky would be clear for two, three, or four days at a time.]

[Footnote 62:  It is nevertheless possible that this fly may be found in that part of the kingdom of Sennaar which lies on the other side of the Adit.]

[Footnote 63:  It was in the house where I quartered, at Sennaar, that I saw this singular animal.  I jogged Khalil Aga, my countryman and companion, to look at it.  He burst cut into an exclamation, “by God, that snake has got legs.”  He jumped up and seized a stick in order to kill and keep it as a curiosity, but it dodged his blow, and darted away among the baggage, which was overhauled without finding it, as it had undoubtedly escaped into some hole in the clay wall of the house.  Mr. Constant, the gentleman, who accompanies Mr. Caillaud, was present at the time, so that I am convinced that what I saw was not an ocular delusion.  I have been informed, since my return to Egypt, that the figure of this animal is to be seen sculptured upon the ancient monuments of Egypt.]

[Footnote 64:  The people of Sennaar catch, cook and eat, without scruple, cats, rats and mice; and those who are rich enough to buy a wild hog, fatten it up and make a feast of it.  I had heard in the lower country that the people of Sennaar made no scruple to eat swine’s flesh, but I absolutely refused to believe that a people calling themselves Mussulmans could do this from choice.  But after my arrival in Sennaar I was obliged to own that I had been mistaken.  The species of hog found in the kingdom of Sennaar is small and black; it is not found in that part of the kingdom called “El Gezira,” i.e. the island, but is caught in the woody mountains of the country near Abyssinia.  In the house of one Malek in Sennaar was found about a dozen of these animals fattening for his table.]