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246 TRAVELS IK UPPER
" if you do not make haste and stop its progress."
Upon this my sagacious friend, knowing all the
danger to winch (in his own country) he was ex-
posed, should he fail of a cure, did not long hesi-
tate ahout forming the resolution which seemed
most likely to secure his safety ; he did not even
revisit his patient, and disappeared without saying
a word to any one, but always taking care to carry
his knowledge under his arm.
If it was not prudent to travel to Gouniei, it was
not easy to get away from it. The boats of the
Nile shunned its shore, which was an object of ge-
neral terror; and the malignity of its inhabitants
had involved it in war with its neighbours, and
particularly with the people of Kamoule> a village
about half way to Neguade, in which they had very
lately murdered one of the natives. According to
the savage custom of the country, it was requisite
that blood should flow at Gonrnei to avenge that
of Kamoule, without their caring whether this blood,
which a blind vengeance sought to spill, was that of
the murderer or of any other person. No one dared
to expose himself to become the victim of a resent-
ment, which time does not obliterate, and which
can only be extinguished in blood. Thus the
whole village refused to officiate as guides, and the
Arabian Scheick himself was afraid to undertake to
conduct us to Neguadi. At last a man appeared,
and
" if you do not make haste and stop its progress."
Upon this my sagacious friend, knowing all the
danger to winch (in his own country) he was ex-
posed, should he fail of a cure, did not long hesi-
tate ahout forming the resolution which seemed
most likely to secure his safety ; he did not even
revisit his patient, and disappeared without saying
a word to any one, but always taking care to carry
his knowledge under his arm.
If it was not prudent to travel to Gouniei, it was
not easy to get away from it. The boats of the
Nile shunned its shore, which was an object of ge-
neral terror; and the malignity of its inhabitants
had involved it in war with its neighbours, and
particularly with the people of Kamoule> a village
about half way to Neguade, in which they had very
lately murdered one of the natives. According to
the savage custom of the country, it was requisite
that blood should flow at Gonrnei to avenge that
of Kamoule, without their caring whether this blood,
which a blind vengeance sought to spill, was that of
the murderer or of any other person. No one dared
to expose himself to become the victim of a resent-
ment, which time does not obliterate, and which
can only be extinguished in blood. Thus the
whole village refused to officiate as guides, and the
Arabian Scheick himself was afraid to undertake to
conduct us to Neguadi. At last a man appeared,
and