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But this is no fpecies of camel, it is a bird called a Peli- 

 can, and the proper name in Arabic, is Jimmel el Bahar, the 

 Camel of the River. The other bird like a partridge, which 

 Mr Norden's people fhot, and did not know its name, and 

 which was better than a pigeon, is called Gooto, very com- 

 mon in all the defert parts of Africa. I have drawn them 

 of many different colours. That of the Deferts of Tripoli, 

 and Cyrenaicum, is very beautiful ; that of Egypt is fpotted 

 white like the Guinea-fowl, but upon a brown ground, not 

 a blue one, as that latter bird is. However, they are all very 

 bad to cat, but they are not of the fame kind with the par- 

 tridge. Its legs and feet are ail covered with feathers, and 

 it has but two toes before. The. Arabs imagine it feeds on 

 {tones, but its food is infects. 



After Comadreedy, the Nile is again divided by another 

 fragment of the ifland, and inclines a little to the welhvard. 

 On the eaft is the village Sidi Ali el Courani. It has only 

 two palm-trees belonging to it, and on that account hath 

 a deferted appearance ; but the wheat upon the banks was 

 five inches high, and more advanced than any we had feen. 

 The mountains on the eaft-iide come down to the banks of 

 the Nile, are bare, white, and fandyyand there is on this fide 

 no appearance of villages. 



The river here is abont a quarter of a mile broad, or 

 fomething more. It mould feem it was the Angyrorimi 

 Qj vitas of Ptolemy, but neither night nor day could I get 

 an inflant for obfervation, on account of thin white clouds, 

 which confuted (for they fcarce can be laid to" cover) the 

 heavens continually. 



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