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the earth, would be all its remains, like thofe of the mi-, 

 ferable village of Garigana. 



I HAVE already obferved, in the beginning of the jom^ney, 

 that the Shekh of the Arabs Nile, vv^ho refidcd in Abyflinia, 

 near Ras el Feel, fince the expedition of Yafous, had warned 

 me, at Hor- Cacamoot, to diftruft the fair promifes and 

 friendly profeffions of Shekh Fidele, and had, indeed, 

 raifedfuch doubts in my mind, that, had not the Daveina 

 been parted from Sim Sim, (or the confines of AbyfTinia) 

 though there would have been a rifk, that if, coming with 

 that tribe, I fhould have been-ill received atSennaar, I never- 

 thelefs would have travelled with them, rather than by 

 Teawa ; but the Daveina were gone. 



The Shekh of Atbara, having no apparent intercft. to 

 deceive us, had hitherto been a friend as far as words would 

 go,and had promifed every thing that remained in his power; 

 but, for fear of the worfl-, Nile had given us a confidential 

 man, who was related to the Jehaina and to the principal 

 Shekh of that tribe. This man condUv5tedan afs, loaded with 

 fait, among the other Arabs of the caravan, and was to fet off 

 to Ras el Feel upon the firft: appearance of danger, which he 

 was to learn by coming once in two days, or oftner, either 

 to Teawa, v;here he was no farther known than as being 

 one of the Jehaina, or to the river, where my Soliman was 

 to meet him at the pools of water ; but his fecret was only 

 known to Soliman, myfelf, and a Greek fervant, Michael. 

 From leaving Hor- Cacamoot, he had no perfonal interview 

 with me ; but the night, when we were like to perilh for 

 thiril in the wood, he had fent me, by Soliman, privately, 

 a horn- full of water, which he had in his goat's fkin, and 



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