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552 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
provifion for our camels. Being now without fear of the 
Arabs who live upon the Nile, from which we were at a 
fufficient diftance, we with the fame view to fafety, declined 
approaching the mountains, but held ourcourfe nearly N. 
to a {mall {pot of grafs and white fand, called Afla-Nagga. 
Here our misfortunes began, from a circumftance we had 
not attended to. Our fhoes, that had needed conftant repair, 
were become at laft abfolutely ufelefs, and the hard ground, ~ 
from the time we paffed Amour, had worn the fkin off in 
feveral places, fo that our feet were very much inflamed by 
the burning fand. 
Azour a mile north-weft of us is Hambily, a rock not 
cconfiderable in fize, but, from the plain country in which it 
is fituated, has the appearance of a great tower or caftle, 
and fouth of it two hillocks or little hills. Thefe are all 
land-marks of the utmoft confequence to caravans in their 
journey, becaufe they are too confiderable in fize to be co- 
vered atany time by the moving fands. At Afla Nagga, Affi- 
ro-baybe is fquare with us, and with the turn which the 
Nile takes eaftward to Kortiand Dongola. The Takaki are the 
people neareft us, weft of Affa Nagga, and Affero-baybe up- 
on the Nile. After thefe, when the Nile has turned E. and W. 
are the Chaigie, on both fides of the river, on to Korti, where 
the territory called the kingdom of Dongola begins. As the 
Nile no longer remains on our left, but makes a remark- 
able turn, which has been much mifreprefented in the maps, 
J put my quadrant in order, and by a medium of three ob- 
fervations, one of Procyon, one of Rigel, and one of the mid- 
dle ftar of the belt of Orion, I found the latitude of Affa 
Nagga to be 19° 30’, which being on a parallel with the far-_ 
theft point of the Nile northward, gives the latitude of that 
place 
