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fecuring a permanent protection from the fun’s oppreflive 
heat. In all other places, though we had travelled con- 
ftantly in forefts, we never met with a tree that could fhade 
us for a moment, the fire having deprived them of all their. 
leaves. 
— Late tibi gurgite rupto 
Ambitur nigris Meroé fecunda colonis, 
Leta comis: hebeni ; que quamvis arbore multé 
Frondeat, aftatem nulla fibi mitigat umbra, 
Linea tam refltum mundi Seri lla leonem. 
i Brean 
Havine refrefhed ourfelves for near two hours by the: 
enjoyment of this water at Imgellalib, and raked.a fufficient 
quantity of fand over the dead bodies of our two compa- 
nions, from piety and decency rather than for ufe, we aban- 
doned them to the hyenas, who had already fmelled the’ 
mortality, and were coming, two and three together, at the 
diftance of a long fhot from the well where we were then. 
drinking. We fet out at eleven, our road being thro’ a very 
extenfive plain; and, at two in the afternoon, we alighted 
at another well, called Garigana; the water was bad, and in. 
fmall quantity.. In this plain is fituated the principal’ 
village of Atbara, called Teawa. The thermometer, flung 
under the camel, in the fhade of the girba of water, had: 
yet, neverthelefs, varied within thefe three hours from 111° 
tO 11Qz. 
Art five o'clock we left Garigana, our journey being ftill 
to the eaftward of north; and, ata quarter paft fix in the even- 
ing, arrived atthe village of that name, whofe inhabitants had 
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