arrival of this Canja. They called it "a water mare" comparing it, by
this appellation, to the swiftest animal with which they are acquainted.
They ran in, crowds to the river's edge to see it mount the current
without the aid of oars.

On the 13th, I had a private audience of the Pasha in the evening.
His Excellence received me as usual, and on my informing him of the
circumstance which had prevented my accompanying his march from the
cataract, he assured me that he would give orders, that, for the future,
I should be furnished from the best of his own camels. I preferred to
his Excellence some requests, which he granted immediately, and on my
retiring, requested me to present myself to him frequently.

Previous to his march from the third cataract, there had arrived at
the camp ambassadors from Shendi, from Malek Shouus, the chief of the
fugitive Shageians, demanding terms of peace. The Pasha replied, that
"the only terms on which they could obtain peace with him, would be by
the surrender of their horses and arms, and returning to their country
to live tranquilly, and without disturbing their neighbors." The
ambassadors replied, that "they would not give up their horses and
arms." The Pasha then answered, that "then he would come to Shendi and
take them." To which it is said they answered, "Come."[29] On hearing,
however, of the rapid march of the Pasha, and of his arrival in Berber,
the chief of Shendi, on whose support it seems Shouus had calculated,
was frightened, and sent his son, bearing some valuable presents, to the
Pasha, to notify his submission, and to receive his orders. The terror
and confusion this step, on the part of one of the most powerful allies
of Sennaar, will occasion to the latter, will probably prevent the
necessity of a battle to ensure its submission. A part of the remnant of
the once powerful Mamalukes of Egypt, who had fled before the Pasha to