SS.2 TRAVELS T O D I S C O V E R 



provifion for our camels. Being now without fear of the 

 Arabs who live upon the Nile, from which we were at a 

 fufficient diftance, we with the fame view to fafety, declined 

 approaching the mountains, but held ourcourfe nearly N. 

 to a fmall fpot of grafs and whitt; fand, called AlTa-Nagga. 

 Here our misfortunes began, from a circumrtance we had 

 not attended to. Our Ihoes, that had needed conftant repair, 

 ■were become at laft abfolutely ufelefs, and the hard ground, 

 from the time we pafled Amour, had worn the llcin off in 

 feveral places, fo that our feet were very much inflamed by 

 the burning Ijand. 



About a mile north-weft of us is Hambily, a rock not 

 confiderable in fize, but, from the plain country in which it 

 is fituated, has the appearance of a great tower or caftle, 

 and fouth of it two hillocks or little hills. Thefe are all 

 land- marks of the utmoft confcquence to caravans in their 

 journey, becaufe they are too confiderable in fize to be co- 

 vered at any time by the moving fands. At AlTa Nagga, AfTi- 

 ro-baybe is fquare with us, and with the turn which the 

 Nile takes eaftward to Korti and Dongola. TheTakaki arc the 

 people neareft us, weft of Affa Nagga, and Affero-baybe up- 

 on the Nile. After thefe, when the Nile has turned E. and W. 

 are the Chaigie, on both fides of the river, on to Korti, where 

 the territory called the kingdom of Dongola begins. As the 

 Nile no longer remains on our left, but makes a remark- 

 able turn, which has been much mifreprefentcd in the maps, 

 I put my quadrant in order, and by a medium of three ob- 

 fervarions, one of Procyon, one of Rigel, and one of the mid- 

 dle ftar of the belt of Orion, I found the latitude of Aila 

 Nagga to be 19" 30', which being on a parallel with the far- 

 .ihcft point of the Nile northward, gives the latitude of that 



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