discipline
was observed in the camp, to prevent the people of the country from
suffering by the presence of the army. Some soldiers and domestics were
severely beaten for taking sheep and goats without paying for them,
and five of the Abbadies (or auxiliaries mounted on dromedaries) were
impaled for having seized some camels from the peasants. It was truly
honorable to the army and its commander to see villages embosomed in a
camp, whose inhabitants, men, women and children, pursued their usual
occupations, without molestation and without fear. In the country below,
which had been the scene of combat, the fields were deserted, and for
several days I had not seen a peasant at work upon the ground. In
the vicinity of the camp of the Pasha, where the people had submitted
themselves, the discordant creak of the water-wheels frequently
attracted the ear, and the peasants cultivated their fields within
musket shot of the camp of a conqueror.

On the 21st of Rebi, a detachment, consisting of three hundred cavalry,
departed from the camp for the country of the Berbers, to secure its
submission and to obtain horses and camels for the army. Learning that
it was the intention of the Pasha to march in a few days, to pitch his
camp about eight hours march farther up the river, I wished to ascertain
whether I could have the horses and camels I needed before the Pasha
marched. His reply to my demand was, that he had no camels, at present,
that were not appropriated to some service or other, but that, as soon
as he had them, I should receive what I needed. I was consequently
obliged to embark in a boat to accompany the march of the camp as,
without camels to carry my tent and baggage, I could not accompany it by
land. On the 25th, all the boats followed the departure of the
troops; the wind was ahead, and the direction of the river the same as
repeatedly before mentioned. We proceeded slowly by the cordel. This
circumstance gave me an opportunity of visiting the Pyramids which I
have mentioned as in view from Meroe. They stand about half a mile from
the right hand bank of the river. I counted twenty-seven, none of them
perfect, and most of them in ruins; the greater part of them are built
of stone, and are evidently much more ancient than those of Meroe.

The largest is probably more than a hundred feet square, and something
more in height. It presents a singularity in its construction worthy
of notice. It is a pyramid within a pyram