j63 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



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CHAP. XII. 



Dljlrejfcs in the Defer t — Meet with Arabs — Camels die — Baggage abat^ 



doned — Come to Syene^ 



^N the 17th of November, at half pail ten in the fore^ 

 noon, we left the valley and pool of Chiggre, If- 

 macl, and Georgis the blind Greek, had complained of 

 Ihivering all night, and I began to be very apprehenfive 

 fome violent fever was to follow. Their perfpiration had 

 not returned but in fmall quantity ever fnice their coming 

 out of the water, and the night had been cxceilively cold, 

 the thermometer Handing at 63°. The day, however, was 

 infufferably hot, and their complaints infenfibly v/ore off to 

 my great comfort. A little before eleven we were again 

 terrified by an army (as it feemcd) of fand pillars, whofe 

 march was conftantly fouth, and the favourite field which 

 they occupied was that great circular fpacc which the Nile 

 makes when oppofite to AfTa Nagga, where it turns wefl 

 to Korti and Dongola. At one time a number of thefe pil- 

 lars 



