THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 31 



CHAP. II. 



Direcllons to Travellers for preferving Health — D'feafes of the Country—. 

 Mufic — Trade t &c. of Mafuah — Conferences -with the Naybe. 



WE arrived in the ifland at eight o'clock, to the great joy 

 of our fervants, who were afraid of fome ftratagem of 

 the Naybe. We got every thing in order, without inter- 

 ruption, and completed our obfervations upon this inhof- 

 pitable ifland, infamous for the quantity of Chriftian blood 

 flied there upon treacherous pretences. 



Masu ah, by a great variety of obfervations of the fun and 

 itars, we found to be in lat. 15 33' s"> and > h Y an obfervation 

 of the fecond fatellite of Jupiter, on the 22d of September 1 769, 

 we found its longitude to be 39 36' 30" eaft of the meridian 

 of Greenwich : the variation of the needle was obferved at 

 mid-day, the 23d of September, to be 12 48'. W. From this it 

 follows, that Loheia, being nearly oppofite, (for it is in lat. 

 1 5 40' 52") the breadth of the Red Sea between Mafuah and 

 Loheia is 4 10' 22". Suppoiing, then, a degree to be equal 

 to 66 ftatute miles, this, in round numbers, will bring the 



breadth 



