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ly filled with water. The principal pool is about forty 
yards fquare and five feet deep; but the beft tafted water 
was in the cleft of a rock, about 30 yards higher, on the 
weit fide of this narrow outlet. All the water, however, 
was very foul, with a number of animals both aquatic and 
land. It was impoflible to drink without putting a piece 
of our cotton girdle over our mouths, to Keep, by filtration, 
the filth of dead animals out of it. We fawa great many 
partridges upon the face of the bare rock; but what they 
fed upon [| could not guefs, unlefs upon infects. We did 
not dare to {hoot at them, for fear of being heard bythe 
wandering Arabs that might be fomewhere in the neigh- 
bourhood ; for Chiggre is a haunt of the Bifhareen of the 
tribe of Abou Bertran, who, though they do not make it a 
ftation, becaufe there is no pafture in the neighbourhood, 
nor can any thing grow there, yet it is one of the moft va- 
luable places of refrefhment, on account of the great quan- 
tity of water, being nearly half way, when they drive their | 
cattle from the borders of the Red Sea to the banks of the 
Nile; as alfo in their expeditions from fouth to north, when 
they leave their encampments in Barbar, torob the Ababdé 
Arabs on the frontiers of Egypt. 
Our firft attention was to our camels, to whom we gave ~ 
that day a double feed of dora, that they might drink for — 
the reft of their jonrney, fhould the wells in the way prove 
{cant of water. We then wathed in a large pool, the coldeft 
water, I think, I ever felt, on account of its being in a cave 
covered with rock, and was inacceflible to the fun in any 
direction. All my people feemed to be greatly recovered by 
this refrigeration, but from fome caufe or other, it fared 
otherwife with the Tuckorory ; one of whom died about 
anhour afterour arrival, and another early thenext morning. 
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