THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. sT7 



fide of the Nile, about twenty miles beyond Syene, or AlTou*. 

 an, nearer Cairo. I alked him why he had not gone with 

 Mahomet Towafli? He faid, he did not like the company, 

 and was very much miftaken if their journey ended welh 

 Upon preHlng him further if this was really the only rea- 

 fon ; he then told me, that he had been fick for fome months 

 at Chendi, contraded debt, and had been obUged to pawn 

 his cloaths, and that his camel was detained for what 

 Hill remained unpaid. After much converfation, repeated 

 feveral' days, I found that Idris (for that was his name) was 

 a man of fome fubftancc in his own country, and had a 

 daughter married to the Schourbatchie at AiTouan. He faid 

 that this was his laft journey, for he never would crofs the 

 defert again. A bargain was nowfoon made. I redeemed 

 his camel and cloak ; he was to lliew me the way to Egypt, 

 and he was there to be recompenfed, according to his beha- 

 viour. 



Chendi, by repeated obfervations of the fun and (lars, 

 made for feveral fucceeding days and nights, I fo.und to be 

 in lat. 16° 38' ^s" north, and at tlie lame place, the 13th of 

 Ocflober, I obferved an immerfion of the firil fateUite of Ju- 

 piter, from which I concluded its longitude to be 33° 24' 45" 

 eaft of the meridian of Greenwich. Tiie higheft degree of 

 the thermometer of Fahrenheit in the fliade was, on the loth 

 of oarober, at one o'clock P. M. 1 19°, wind north ; the loweft 

 was on the nth, at midnight, 87°, wind well, after a fmall 

 Ihower of rain. 



I PREPARED now to Icave Chendi, but firfl returned my 

 benefaftrefs Sittina thanks for all her favours. She had 

 called for Idris, and given him very pofitive inflrudions, 



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