THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, sor 
bringing their.arms in their hands, as well thofe that they 
‘carried upon them, as’ the {pare arms, all of which were 
primed and charged. 
Tae firft queftion was, what to do with the Bifhareen? 
None of us had any fufpicion of him.. We unchained him 
from the Barbarin, and faftened. his other hand, then gave 
him to the Tucorory, and made them: fland behind to in- 
creafe the appearance of our. number. I then advanced to 
the edge of the hill, and cried out with a loud voice, “ Stop! 
for you cannot pafs, here.” Whether they underftood. it I 
do not know, but. they. ftill perfifted i in mounting the hill. 
I again cried, fhewing my firelock, “ ‘Advance a ftep farther: . 
and Ill fire.” » After a {hort paufe they all difmounted from 
their camels, and one of them, with his lance in his hand, 
came forward till within twenty yards, upon which. Idris. 
immediately knew them, and faid, they were Ababdé. “ A- 
babde or not, faid I, they are feventeen men, and Arabs, 
and I am not of a difpofition, without further furety, to put 
myfelf i in their hands as, Mahomet Aga did. I am fure they 
are perfectly: in our power now, as long as they ftand where 
they are.” Idris then told me that he was married to one 
of the Ababde of Shekh Ammer, and he would go-and get 
a fure word from them. Tell them from me, faid I, that I, 
too, am the friend of Nimmer their Shekh, and his two fons,. 
and of Shekh Hammam of Furfhout ; that I am going into 
Egypt, have been followed by freibuhareeh and truft no- 
body ; have twenty men armed with firelocks, and will do: 
them. no harm, provided they confent to pafs, one by one,, 
-and. give a.man for a hoftage.. 
Tpriss 
