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 | | The branch of the Ababdeh to which this man,` whose name was Mohammed, belonged, feed their flocks on uninhabited eastern banks of the river, and on its numerous islands, as far south as Dongola. |
 | | Though poor, they refuse to bestow their daughters, who are famed for their beauty, in marriage on the rich Nubians, and have thus preserved their purity of race. |
 | | The caravan, consisting of about fifty merchants, with their slaves and beasts, moved under the protection of about thirty Ababdeh Arabs, who though no heroes or philosophers, were not remarkably deficient either in courage or humanity. |
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