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fide of the Nile, about twenty miles beyond Syene, or Affou- 
-an, nearer Cairo, I afked.him why he had not gone with 
Mahomet Towafh? He faid, he did not like the company, 
‘and was very much miftaken if their journey ended well. 
Upon prefling him further if this was really the only rea~ 
fon; he then told me, that he had been fick for fome months 
at Chendi, contracted debt, and had been obliged to pawn 
his cloaths, and that his camel was detained for what 
fill remained unpaid. After much converfation, repeated 
feveral days, I found that Idris (for that was his name) was 
aman of fome fubftance in his own country, and had a 
daughter married to the Schourbatchie at Affouan. He faid 
‘that this was his laft journey, for he never would crofs the 
defert again. A bargain was now foon made. I redeemed 
his camel and cloak ; he was to fhew me the way to Egypt, 
and he was there to be recompenfed, according to his beha- 
¥Vicur. 
-..Curnp1, by repeated obfervations of the fun and ftars, 
made for feveral fucceeding days and nights, I found to be 
in lat. 16° 38’ 35” north, and at the fame place, the 13th of 
‘October, I obferved an immerfion of the firft fatellite of Ju- 
piter, from which I concluded its longitude to be 33° 24’ 45” 
eaft of the meridian of Greenwich. The higheft degree of 
the thermometer of Fahrenheit in the fhade was,onthe roth 
of October, at one o’clock P, M. 119°, wind north; the loweft 
was onthe 11th, at midnight, 87°; wind weft, after a {mall 
fhower of rain. | , 
‘| pREPARED How to leave Chendi,. but fir returned my 
pbenefa@refs Sittina thanks’ for all her favours. She had 
called for Idris, and .given him very pofitive inftructions, 
Vou, IV. 3X mix 
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