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cious than thofe animals } finking under the rage of hunger, and the ftill more Intolerable 

 torture of thirft, it was in vain that he chewed the bitter leaves of the trees, ortlimbcd 

 to look around him for a watering-place. A feafonable fhower however favcd him from 

 perifhing during the firft night ; and after a weary courfe without food or water for the 

 grcatcft part of the day follov.'ing, he had the good fortune to meet with relief among a few 

 huts of Negro {hepherds. In this manner, and with no better dependance forfupport than 

 the kindnefs of the moil wretched of human beings, he proceeded on the objedt of his 

 miflion for fifteen days ; when, on the morning of the i6th, having been joined by fome 

 Negroes who were travelling to the town of Sego, he had the inexpreffible fatisfaiSlion of 

 beholding the obje£l of his wifhes, the long fought Niger glittering to the morning fun as 

 broad as the Thames at Weftminfter, and flowing flowly from weft to eaft through the 

 middle of a very extenfive town, which his fellow travellers told him was Sego, the ca- 

 pital ©f the great kingdom of Bambarra, which Major Rennell places in 14° 10' Northt 

 latitude, and z" 16' Weft longitude from Greenwich. 



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