548 -. TRAVELS TO DISCOVER > 
-Havine received all the affurances poflible from Idris 
that he would live and die with us, after having repeated the 
prayer of peace, we put on the beft countenance poflible, 
and committed ourfelves to the defert. There were I{mael 
the Turk, two Greck fervants befides Georgts, who was 
almoft blind and ufelefs. Two Barbarins, who took care 
of the camels, Idris, and a young man, a relation of his, 
who joined him at Barbar, to return home; in all nine 
perfons, erght only of whom were effective. We were all 
well-armed with blunderbuffes, fwords, piftols, and double- 
barrelled guns, except Idris and his lad, who had lances, 
the only arms they could ufe. Five or fix naked wretch- 
es of the Tucorory joined us at the watering place, much 
againft my will, for I knew that we fhould probably be re- 
duced to. the difagreeable neceflity of feeing them die with 
thirft before our eyes; or by affifting them, fhould any ac- 
cident happen to our water, we ran.a very great rifk of 
perifhing with them.. 
Ir was on the 9th of November, at noon, we left Gooz;, 
and fet out for the fakia, or watering-place, which is be- 
low a little village called Haffla. All the weft fide of the 
Nile is full of villages down to Takaki, but they are all 
Jaheleen, without government, and perpetually in rebel- 
lion. At half paft three in the afternoon we came to the 
Nile to lay in our ftore of water. We filled four fkins, 
which might contain altogether about a hogfhead and a 
half. As for our food, it confifted in twenty-two large 
goats {kins ftuffed with a powder of bread made of dora 
here at Gooz, on'purpofe for fuch expeditions. It is about 
the fize and fhape of a pancake, but thinner. Being much 
dried, rather than toafted at the fire, it is afterwards rub- 
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