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90 TRAVELS IN EGYPT, NUBIA,
characters which I could not trace. A bare wall, near the
south-east end of this ruin, contains symbolic figures of bad
sculpture, evidently Scriptural*.
Below Ouffeddounee we passed a caravan of Gelabs
(slave-merchants), from Dongola, on their way to Siout, who
had encamped on the west bank. I observed they were
more attentive to the forms of the Mahometan religion than
the natives of these parts, of whom I had scarcely seen any
who attended to its ceremonies.
On the 29th and 30th of May we continued descending
the Nile to the cataracts of Galabshee, where I was tempted
to land, for the purpose of sketching the grand scene they
presented to my view: but as we approached the shore, the
natives of the neighbourhood ran down with their weapons,
dancing and howling, as if to oppose my landing; I therefore
thought it more prudent to continue my voyage.
We arrived at Deboo on the 31st of May. Here, on
landing, to examine the ruins of the temple I mentioned in
my ascent up the Nile, I found the greatest part of the
population of the village had taken refuge in its enclosure for
protection against the attacks of that of another; which, to
revenge the murder of one of their number by an inhabitant
of Deboo, committed nightly depredations on the latter,
* One had reference to the Virgin, sitting under a tree.
characters which I could not trace. A bare wall, near the
south-east end of this ruin, contains symbolic figures of bad
sculpture, evidently Scriptural*.
Below Ouffeddounee we passed a caravan of Gelabs
(slave-merchants), from Dongola, on their way to Siout, who
had encamped on the west bank. I observed they were
more attentive to the forms of the Mahometan religion than
the natives of these parts, of whom I had scarcely seen any
who attended to its ceremonies.
On the 29th and 30th of May we continued descending
the Nile to the cataracts of Galabshee, where I was tempted
to land, for the purpose of sketching the grand scene they
presented to my view: but as we approached the shore, the
natives of the neighbourhood ran down with their weapons,
dancing and howling, as if to oppose my landing; I therefore
thought it more prudent to continue my voyage.
We arrived at Deboo on the 31st of May. Here, on
landing, to examine the ruins of the temple I mentioned in
my ascent up the Nile, I found the greatest part of the
population of the village had taken refuge in its enclosure for
protection against the attacks of that of another; which, to
revenge the murder of one of their number by an inhabitant
of Deboo, committed nightly depredations on the latter,
* One had reference to the Virgin, sitting under a tree.