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At Addergey, the 3 ill day of January, at noon, I obfervcd 

 the meridian altitude of the fun, and, at night, the pafTage 

 of feven different liars over the meridian, by a medium of 

 all which, I found that the latitude of Addergey is if 24' 56" 

 North. And on the morning of the id of February, at the 

 fame place, I obferved an immerfion of the fecond fatellitc 

 of Jupiter, by which I concluded the longitude of Addergey 

 to be 37 57" eafl of the meridian of Greenwich, 



On the 4th of February, at half pad nine in the morning, 

 we left Addergey : hunger prefhng us, we were prepared to 

 do it earlier, and for this we had been up fince five in the 

 morning ; but our lofs of a mule obliged us, when we 

 packed up our tent, to arrange our baggage differently. 

 While employed at making ready for our departure, which 

 was jufl in the dawn of day, a hyaena, unfeen by any of us, 

 fattened upon one of Yaiine's afTes, and had almoft pulled 

 his tail away. I was bufied at gathering the tent-pins into 

 a fack, and had placed my mufket and bayonet ready 

 againfl a tree, as it is at that hour, and the clofe of the eve- 

 ning, you are always to be on guard againfl banditti. A 

 boy, who was fervant to Yafine, faw the hyaena firft, and 

 flew to my mufket. Yafine was disjoining the poles of the 

 tent, and, having one half of the largefl in his hand, he ran 

 to the affiflance of his afs, and in that moment the mufket 

 went off, luckily charged with only one ball, which gave 

 Yafine a flefh wound between the thumb and forefinger of 

 his left hand. The boy inflantly threw down the mufket,. 

 which had terrified the hyaena* and made him let go the 

 afs ; but he flood ready to fight Yafine, who, not amu- 

 Ung himfelf with the choice of weapons, gave him fo 



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