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S. E. and N. W. The night here was immoderately cold, 

 and the v/md north. We were now very near a crifis, one 

 way or the other. Our bread was confumed, fo that we had 

 not fufficient for one day more; and though. we had camels 

 flefli, yet, by living fo long on bread and water, an invin- 

 cible repugnance arofe either to fmell or tade it. As our 

 camels were at their lail gafp, we had taken fo fparingly 

 of water, that, when we came to divide it, we found it in- 

 fufficient for our neceffities, if Syene was even fo near as we 

 conceived it to be. 



Georgis had loil one eye, and was nearly blind in the 

 other. Ifmael and he had both become fo ftiff by being 

 carried, that they could not bear to fet their feet to the 

 ground ; and I may fay for myfelf, that, though I had fup- 

 ported the wounds in my feet with a patience very uncom- 

 mon, yet they were arrived at that height as to be perfedl- 

 ly intolerable, and, as I apprehended, on the point of mor- 

 tification. The bandage, which the Bifhareen had tied a- 

 bout the hollow of my foot, was now almoft hidden by 

 the flefh fwelling over it. Three large wounds on the 

 rip-ht foot, and two on the left, continued open, whence a 

 quantity of lymph oozed continually. It was alio with 

 the utmoft difficulty we could get out the rag, by cutting 

 it to flireds with fciffars. The tale is both unpleafant and 

 irkfome. Two foles which remained from our fandals, the 

 upper leathers of which had gone to pieces in the fand 

 near Gooz, were tied with a cotton cloth very adroitly 

 by the Bifhareen. But it feemed impoffible that I could walk 

 further, even with this affiltance, and therefore we deter- 

 mined to throw away the quadrant, telefcopes, and time- 

 keeper, and fave our lives, by riding the camels alternately. 



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