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noufs, called Takaki. Some of thefe miferable wretches, 

 were brought to the count, and a treaty made, that all thefe 

 men of the two villages were to am It him in his re- em- 

 barkation, after he had got his barge round the cataract ; 

 and among thefe barbarians he would have loll his life. 



The count, befides his wife, had brought with him his 

 lieutenant, Mr Norden, a Dane, who Was to ferve him as 

 draughtfman; but neither the count, countefs, nor lieuten- 

 ant underilood one word of the languages. There are always 

 (happily for travellers) wife and honeft men among the 

 French and Venetian merchants at Cairo, who, feeing the 

 obftinacy of the count, perfuaded him that it was more mi- 

 litary, and more in the ftilc of an admiral, to detach Nor- 

 den, his inferior officer, to reconnoitre Ibrim, Deir, arid the 

 cataract of Jan Adel, as alfo to renew his treaty with the 

 Kennoufs at Succoot and Afel Dimmo. 



Norden accordingly failed in the common embarkations 

 ufed upon the Nile ; the voyage is in every body's hands. It 

 has certainly a conliderable deal of merit, but is full of 

 fquabbles and lightings with boat-men and porters, which 

 might as well have been left out, as they lead to no inftruc- 

 tion, but ferve only to difcourage travellers, for they were 

 chiefly owing to ignorance of language. It was with the 

 utmolt difficulty, and after many difailers, that Norden ar- 

 rived at Syene, and the lirfl cataract ; after which greater 

 and greater were encountered before he reached Ibrim, 

 where the Kafcheff put him in prifon, robbed him of what 

 he had in the boat, and Scarcely fullered him to return to 

 Cairo without cutting his throat, which, for a confiderable 

 time, he and his foldiers had determined to do. 



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