THE SOURCE-OF ‘THE NILE. 555 
From this day, fubordination, though not entirely ceafed, 
was faft on the decline ; all was difcontent, murmuring, and 
fear. Our water was greatly diminifhed, and that terrible 
_ death by thirft began to ftare us in the face, and this was 
Owing ina great meafure to our own imprudence. I{mael, 
who had been left centinel over the fkins of water, had 
flept fo foundly, that this had given an opportunity to a 
Tucorory to open one of the fkins that had not been touch- 
ed, and ferve himfelf out of it at his own difcretion. I fup- 
pofe that, hearing fomebody ftir, and fearing detection, he 
had withdrawn himfelf as fpeedily as poflible, without ta- 
king time to tie the mouth of the girba, which we 
found in the morning with fcarce a quart of water in it. 
On the isth, at a quarter paft feven in the morning we 
left Waadi Dimokea, keeping:a little to the weftward of 
north, as far as I could judge, juft upon the line of Syene. 
The fame ridge of hills being on our right and left as 
yefterday, in the center of thefe appeared Del Aned. At 
twenty minutes paft two o’clock in the afternoon we came 
to an-opening in the ridge of rocks; the pafiage is about 
a mile broad, through which we continued till we alight- 
ed at the foot of the mountain Del Aned. The place is calls 
ed Waadi Del Aned. | 
Tue fame appearance of moving pillars of {and prefent- 
ed themfelves to us this day in form and difpofition like 
_ thofe we had feen at Waadi-Halboub, only they feemed to 
* be more in number, and lefs in fize. They came feveral 
times in a direction clofe upon us; that is, 1 believe, withe - 
in lefs than two miles. They began, immediately after 
fun-rife, like a thick wood, and almoft darkened the fun: 
: | 4A2 His. 
