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that day in mounting and reftifying my quadrant, and 

 that fame evening had a clear and diftinft obfervation of 

 Procyon, and feveral other of the fixed flars, the largeft and 

 fitted for my purpofe. The next day alfo, having a good 

 obfervation of the fun in the meridian, all equations adopt- 

 ed from a mean, I found the latitude of Teawa, the capital 

 of Atbara, to be 14° 2' 4" north. With regard to longitude, 

 Hor-Cacamoot is about fix miles eaft of Teawa, which is near- 

 ly under the fame meridian with Ras el Feel, fo there was 

 no occafion for any obfervation on that fubjed. 



On the 13th of April arrived a naked Arab of the Jehaina, 

 %vith intelligence that a caravan belonging to Atbara, which 

 had come to Nara in Abyflinia for fait, had been all feized 

 by Ammonios, Ayto Confu's governor of Nara, their affes 

 and fait taken from them, and the men put in clofe pri- 

 fon. The Shekh of the Jehaina, an old man of very comely 

 prefence, with ten or twelve of his clan on camels, came 

 over to Shekh Fidele that morning before I went out, and 

 they found the Moullah fitting with him. The news firuck 

 all of them with a panic, but none more fo than our Shekh 

 of Atbara. The Shekh of the Jehaina faid he had not heard 

 the caufe of it, but fo violent a prdcedure had not happened 

 even when Yafous II. invaded Sennaar, for the people of the 

 two frontiers had all that time been friends. He begged, 

 however, Shekh Fidele immediately to interfere, and fend 

 fome perfon to Ras el Feel, to his friend Yafine. When 

 they had fettled thus far, a meffage came for me to attend 

 the Shekh. I immediately went, leaving my fervants to put 

 up my quadrant. I had, indeed, an inclination to obferve 

 the approaching eclipfe ; biit as I knew perfcdlily the fitua- 

 tion of Teawa with regard to- Ras el Feel, I thought I 



might 



