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efpecially huge, long-haired baboons, which we frequently 

 met walking upright. Through thefe high and difficult 

 mountains we have only narrow paths, like thofe of fheep, 

 made by the goats, or the wild beafls we are fpeaking of, 

 which, after we had walked on them for a long fpace, land- 

 ed us frequently at the edge of fomc valley, or precipice, 

 and forced us to go back again to fearch for a new road. 

 From towards Zeegam, to the weftward, and from the plain 

 where the river winds fo much, is the only eafy accefs to 

 the fountains of the Nile, and they that afcend to them by 

 this way will not think even that approach too eafy. 



It remains only for me to fay, that neither have thejefuits, 

 (Paez his, brethren in the million, and his contemporaries) 

 made any geographical ufe of this difcovery, either hi lon- 

 gitude or latitude ; nor have the hiftorians of his fociety, 

 who have followed afterwards, with all the information and 

 documents before them, thought proper even to quote his 

 travels ; it will not be eafy, from the authority of a man like 

 Athanafius Kircher, writing at Rome, to fupport the reality 

 of fuch a difcovery, not to be found in the genuine writings 

 of Peter Paez himielf. With fuch a voyage, if it had been 

 real, there Ihould have b^cn publifhed at leaft an itinerary, 

 and mod of the jefuits were capable enough to have made 

 a rough obfervation of longitude and latitude, in the coun- 

 try where they refided, for near one hundred years, Add 

 to this, no obfervation appears from any Jeiiiit of the idola- 

 try or pagan worfhip, which prevailed near the fource of 

 the Nile, and this would feem to have been their immediate 

 province. 



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