/ . 



THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. *j 



dieir priefts, and moullahs, their foldiers, and people living 

 in the country, are. in point of manners, jufl as bad as the 

 others. 



Rosetto is in lat. 31* 24' 15" N. ; it is the place where 

 we embark for Cairo, which we accordingly did on June 

 the 30th. 



There is a wonderful deal of talk at Alexandria of the 

 danger of palling over the defert to Rofetto. The fame 

 converfation is held here. After you embark on the Nile 

 in your way to Cairo, you hear of pilots, and matters of 

 veflels, who land you among robbers to fhare your plunder, 

 and twenty fuch like ftories, all of them of old date, and 

 which perhaps happened long ago, or never happened at 

 all. 



But provided the government of Cairo is fettled, and you 

 do not land at villages in itrife with each other, (in which 

 circumitances no perfon of any nation is fafe) you muft be 

 very unfortunate indeed, if any .great accident befal you be- 

 tween Alexandria and Cairo. 



For, from the conflant intercourfe between thefe two ci- 

 ties, and the valuable charge confided to thefe mailers of 

 vefTels, they are all as well known, and at the leail as much 

 under authority, as the boatmen on the river Thames ; and, 

 if they mould have either killed, or robbed any perfon, it 

 muft be with a view to leave the country immediately ; elfe 

 either at Cairo, Rofetto, Fue, or Alexandria, wherever they 

 were firfl caught, they would infallibly be hanged. 



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