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the earth, would be all its remains, like thofe of the mi- 
ferable village of Garigana. 
I nave already obferved, in the beginning of the journey, 
that the Shekh of the Arabs Nile, who refided in Abyflinia, 
near Ras el Feel, fince the expedition of Yafous, had warned 
me, at Hor-Cacamoot, to diftruft the! fair promifes and 
friendly profeffions of Shekh Fidele, and had, indeed, 
raifed fuch doubts in my mind, that, had not the Daveina 
been parted from Sim Sim, (or the confines of Abyffinia) 
though there would have been a rifk, that if, coming with 
_ that tribe, I fhould have been-ill received at Sennaar, I never- 
thelefs would have travelled with them, rather than by 
Teawa; but the Daveina were gone. 
Tue Shekh of Atbara, having no apparent intereft to 
deceive us, had hitherto been a friend as.far as words would 
go,and had promifed every thing that remained in his power; 
but, for fear of the worft, Nile had given us a confidential 
man, who was related to the Jehaina and to the principal 
Shekh of that tribe. This man conductedan afs, loaded with 
falt,amongthe other Arabs of the caravan,and was to fet off 
to Ras el Feel upon the firft appearance of danger, which he 
was to learn by coming once in two days, or oftner, either 
to Teawa, where he was -no farther known than as being 
one of the Jehaina, or to the river, where my Soliman was 
to meet him at the pools of water; but his fecret was only 
known to Soliman, myfelf, and a Greek fervant, Michael. 
From leaving Hor-Cacamoot, he had no perfonal interview 
with me; but the night, when we were like to perifh for 
thirft in the wood, he had fent me, by Soliman, privately, 
a horn-full of water, which he had in his goat’s fkin, and 
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