THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 5 6 3 



work, tho\ even here, there are iilands a-head; and clear wea- 

 ther, as well as a good look-out, will always be necefTary. 



On the 19th of September, at three quarters paft fix in 

 the morning, we failed from our anchorage near Surat. 

 At a quarter paft nine, Dargeli, an ifland with trees upon 

 it, bore N. W. by W. two miles and a half diftant ; and 

 Drugerut three leagues and a half north and by eaft, when 

 it fell calm. 



At eleven o'clock, we pafied the ifland of "Dergai- 

 ham, bearing N. by Eaft, three miles diftant, and at five 

 in the afternoon we came to an anchor in the harbour of 

 Mafuah, having been * feventeen days on our paflage, in- 

 cluding the day we firft went on board, though this voy- 

 age, with a favourable wind, is generally made in three 

 days ; it often has, indeed, been failed in lefs. 



The reader will obferve, that many of the iflands begin 

 with Dahal, and fome with Del, which laft is only an ab- 

 breviation of the former, and both of them fignify ijland, 

 in the language of Beja, othcrwife called Geez y or the lan- 

 guage of the fhepherds. MafTbwa, too, though generally 

 ipclled in the manner I have here expreired it, mould pro- 

 perly be written Mafuah, which is the harbour or water of 

 the Shepherds, Of this nation, fo often mentioned already in 

 this work, as well as the many other people lefs powerful 

 and numerous than they that inhabit the countries be- 

 tween the tropics, or frontiers of Egypt and the Line, it will 



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* This muft not be attributed wholly to the weather. We fpent much time in furveving 

 the iflands, and in obfervation. 



