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The river Zebee, or Kibbee, furrounds a great part of the 

 kingdom of Gingiro. It has been miftaken for the river 

 El Aice, which runs into Egypt in a courfe parallel to the 

 Nile, but to the weft of it. 



Narea feems to be the higheft land in the peninfula of 

 Africa, fo that here the rivers begin to run alternately to- 

 wards the Cape of Good Hope and Mediterranean ; but the 

 defcent at firft is very fmall on either fide. In the adjoin- 

 ing latitudes, that is 4 on each fide of the Line, it rains per- 

 petually, fo that thefe rivers, though not rapid, are yet kept 

 continually full. 



This of Zebee, is univerfally allowed by the merchants 

 of this country to be the head of the river Quilimancy, 

 which, pafling through fuch a tract of land from Narea to 

 near Melinda, muft have opened a very confiderable com- 

 munication with the inland country. 



This territory, called Zindero, or Gingiro, is a very fmall 

 one. The father and Fecur Egzie refted the fixth day 

 from their fetting out from Narea. The river Zebee, by 

 the defcription c*f Fernandes, feems to incline from its 

 fource in a greater angle than any river on the north of that 

 partition. He fays it carries more water with it than the 

 Nile, and is infinitely more rapid, fo that it would be abfo- 

 lutely impafTable in the feafon of rains, were it not for large 

 rocks which abound in its channel. 



The pafTage was truly tremendous; trees were laid from 

 the more to the next immediate rock ; from that rock to 

 the next another tree was laid ; then another that reached 



to 



