[131] Diod. Sic. Bib. lib. I. p. 45. § c.
[132] Vide Norden’s map of the Nile.
[133] Juven. Sat. 15. ver. 76.
[134] Idris Welled Hamran, our guide through the great desert, dwelt in this village.
[135] The ancient Adei.
[136] The Bishareen are the Arabs who live in the frontier between the two nations. They are the nominal subjects of Sennaar, but, in fact, indiscreet banditti, at least as to strangers.
[137] They were Shepherds Indigenæ, not Arabs.
[138] Qui Ludit in Hospite fixo—Was a character long ago given to the Moors.
Horace Ode.
[139] This kind of oath was in use among the Arabs, or Shepherds, early as the time of Abraham, Gen. xxi. 22, 23. xxvi. 28.