DEE SOURCE OF THE NILE. Ait 
of villages, were fupplied with water from wells and 
had large crops of Indian corn fown about their pof- 
feffions. The curfe of that country, the Arabs Daveina, 
have deftroyed Imgededema, and all the villages about it, 
filled up their wells, burnt their crops, and expofed all the 
inhabitants to die by famine. 
We saad Beyla to be in lat. 13° 42’ 4”; that is, about 
eleven miles weft of Teawa, and thirty-one and a half miles 
due fouth. We were met by Mahomet, the Shekh, at the | 
very entrance of the town. He faid, he looked upon us as 
rifen from the dead; that we muft be good people, and 
particularly under the care of Providence, to have efcaped 
the many fnares the Shekh of Atbara had laid for us. Ma- 
homet, the Shekh, had provided every fort of refrefhment 
poffible for us ; and, thinking we could not live without it, 
he had ordered fugar for us from Sennaar. Honey for.the 
moft part hitherto had been its fubftitute.. We had a good 
comfortable fupper ; as fine wheat-bread as ever I ate in my 
life, brought from Sennaar, as alfo rice; in a word, every- 
thing that our kind landlord could contribute to our plen- 
tiful and hofpitable entertainment. 
Our whole company was full of joy, to which the Shekh 
greatly encouraged them ; and if there was an alloy to the 
happinefs, it was the feeing that I did not partake of it. 
Symptoms of an aguifh diforder had been hanging about 
me for feveral days, ever fince the diarrhoea had left me. I 
found the greateft repugnance, or naufea, at the fmell of 
warm meat; and, having a violent headach, I infifted up- 
on going to bed fupperlefs, after having drank a quantity 
of warm water by way of emetic. Being exceedingly ti- 
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