THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. i(T 7 



penfions, which they give to the pooreil of them, to he de- 

 coy-ducks to the reft. 



Opposite to Negade, on the other fide of the river about 

 three miles, is Cus, a large town, the Appollonis Civitas Par- 

 va of the ancients. There are no antiquities at this place ; 

 but the caravan, which was to carry the corn for Mecca, 

 acrofs the defert to Cofleir, was to aflemble there. I found 

 they were not near ready ; and that the Arabs Atouni had 

 threatened they would be in their way, and would not fuf- 

 fer them to pals, at any rate, and that the guard command- 

 ed to efcort them acrofs the defert, would come from Fur- 

 fhout, and therefore I mould have early warning, 



It was the 2d of February I returned to Badjoura, and 

 took up my quarters in the houfe formerly alhgned me, 

 greatly to the joy of Shekh Ifmael, who, though he was 

 in the main reconciled to his friend, friar Chriftopher, 

 had not yet forgot the wounding of the live men by his 

 miscalculating ramadan ; and was not without fears that 

 the fame inadvertence might, fome day or other, be fatal to 

 him, in his pleurify and afthma, or, what is ftiil more like- 

 ly, by the operation of the tabangc. 



As I was now about to launch into that part of my ex- 

 pedition, in which I was to have no further intercoufe with 

 Europe J fet myfelf to work to examine all my obfervations, 

 and put my journal in fuch forwardnefs by explanations, 

 where needful, that the labours and pains I had hitherto 

 been at, might not be totally loft to the public, if I mould 

 pcriih in the journey I had undertaken, which, every day, 



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