'THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 95 



Wah, the Oafis Magna of antiquity, and fo into the great 

 Defert of Selima. 



Three miles beyond Siout, the wind turned directly 

 fouth, fo we were obl : \. :i to May at Tima the reft of the 20th. 

 I was wearied with continuing in the boat, and went on 

 more at Tima. It is a fmall town, furrounded like the reft 

 with groves of palm-trees. Below Tima is Eandini, three 

 miles on the eaft fide, The Nile is here full of fandy iflands. 

 Thofe that th . .nidation has firil left are all fown, thefe 

 are chiefly pijj the eaft. The others on the weft were barren 

 and uncultivated ; all of them moflly compofed of fand. 



I walked into the defert behind the village, and fhot 

 a confidcrable number of the bird called Gooto, and feveral 

 hares likewife, fo that I lent one of my fervants loaded to 

 the boat. I then walked down paft a fmall village called 

 Nizelet el Himma, and returned by a itill fmaller one call- 

 ed Shuka, about a quarter of a mile from Tima. I was ex- 

 ceedingly fatigued with the heat by the fouth wind * blow- 

 ing, and the deep fand on the fide of the mountain. I was 

 then beginning my apprenticefhip, which I fully compleatcd. 



The people in thefe villages were in appearance little 

 lefs miferable than thofe of the villages we had paiTed. 

 They fcemed fhy and furly at firft, but, upon converfation, 

 became placid enough. I bought fome medals from them 

 of no value, and my fervants telling them I was a phyfician, 

 I- gave my advice to feveral of the fick. This reconciled 



them 



It is called Hamfeen, becaufe it is expected to blow all PenteccS. • 



