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that day in mounting and rectifying my quadrant, and 
that fame evening had a clear and diftin& obfervation of 
.Procyon, and feveral other of the fixed ftars, the largeft and 
fitteft for my purpofe.. The next day alfo, having a good 
obfervation of the fun in the meridian, all equations adopt- 
ed from a mean, I found the latitude of Teawa, the capital 
of Atbara, to be 14° 2’ 4” north. With regard to longitude, 
Hor-Cacamoot is about fix miles eaft of Teawa, which is near- 
ly under the fame meridian with Ras el Feel, fo there was 
no occafion for any obfervation on that fubject. 
On the 13th of April arrived a naked Arab of the Jehaina, 
with intelligence that a caravan belonging to Atbara, which 
had come to Nara in Abyflinia for falt, had been all feized 
by Ammonios, Ayto Confu’s governor of Nara, their affes 
and falt taken from them, and the men put in clofe pri- 
fon. The Shekh of the Jehaina, an old man of very comely 
prefence, with ten or twelve of his clan on camels, came 
over to Shekh Fidele that morning before I went out, and 
they found the Moullah fitting with him. Thenews ftruck 
all of them with a panic, but none mote fo than our Shekh 
of Atbara. The Shekh of the Jehaina faid he had not heard 
the caufe of it, but fo violent a procedure had not happened 
even when Yafous IJ. invaded Sennaar, for the people of the . 
two frontiers had all that time been friends. He begged, 
however, Shekh Fidele immediately to interfere, and fend 
fome perfon to Ras el Feel, to his friend Yafine. . When 
they had fettled thus far, a meflage came for me to attend 
the Shekh. [immediately went, leaving my fervants to put. 
up my quadrant. I had, indeed, an inclination to obferve 
the approaching eclipfe ; but as I knew perfectly the fitua- 
tion of Teawa with regard to Ras el Feel, I thought I 
might 
