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CHAP. V. 



■Pafs the Nile and encamp at Tfoomwa — Arrive at Derdera — Alarm on 

 approaching the Army — Join the King at Karcagna. 



ON the 2 2d of May we were all equally defirous to re- 

 fume our journey. We fet out accordingly at fix 

 o'clock in the morning, afcending fome hills covered, as 

 the former ones, with trees and fhrubs, utterly unknown to 

 me, but of inexpremble beauty, and many of extraordinary 

 fragrance. We continued afcending about three miles, till 

 we came to the top of the ridge within fight of the lake. As 

 we rofe, the hills became more bare and lefs beautiful. We af- 

 terwards defcended towards the paflage, partly over fteep 

 banks which had been covered with bufhcs, all trodden down 

 by the army, and which had made the accefs to the river ex- 

 ceedingly flippery. Here we faw the ufe of Mahomet's fervants, 

 three of whom, each with a lance in one hand, holding 

 that of his companion in the other, waded acrofs the vio- 

 lent flream, founding with the end of their lances every 



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