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fecuring a permanent protedlion from the fmi's opprcfIl;'e 

 heat. In ali other places, though we had travelled con- 

 flan dy in forefls, we never met with a tree that could ihade 

 •us for a moment, the fire having deprived them of all their 

 leaves. 



Late tibi gurgite rtipto 



Ambitur n'lgr'is Mero'e facunda colonis^ 

 Lata conns hebcjii ; qtiiE qiiamvh arbore miilth 

 Frondeat^ ceftatem nulla ftbi mit'igat iimbra^ 

 Linea tarn reBum mundiferit ilia Iconcm. 



Luc AN. 



Having refreflied ourfelves for near two hours by the 

 enjoyment of this water at Imgellalib, and raked a fufficient 

 quantity of fand over the dead bodies of our two compa- 

 nions, from piety and decency rather than for ufe, we aban- 

 doned them to the hysenas, who had already fmelled the 

 mortality, and were coming, two and three together, at the 

 diftance of a long fhot from the well where we were then 

 drinking. We fet out at eleven, our road being thro' a very 

 extenfive plain ; and, at two in the afternoon, we alighted 

 at another well, called Garigana ; the water was bad, and in 

 fmall quantity. In this plain is fituated the principal 

 village of Atbara, called Teawa. The thermometer, flung 

 under the camel, in the fhade of the girba of water, had 

 yet, neverthelefs, varied within thefe three hours from 1 1 1" 

 to ii9i-. 



At five o'clock we left Garigana, our journey being ft ill 

 to the eaftward of north; and, at a quarter paft fix in the even- 

 ing arrived at the village of that name, whofe inhabitants had 



all. 



