THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 79 



I aiked our Rais where his fair wind was which he promi- 

 jfed to bring ? He faid, his wife had quarrelled with him all 

 night, and would not give him time to pray; and therefore, 

 fays he with a very droll face, you mall fee me 'do 'all that 

 a Saint can do for you on this occasion. I afked him what 

 that was ? He made another droll face, " Why, it is to draw 

 " the boat by the rope till the wind turns fair." I commend- 

 ed very much this wife alternative, and' immediately the 

 veffel began to. move, but very flowly, the wind being Hill 

 unfavourable. 



On looking into Mr Norden's voyage, Fwas itruck at firil 

 fight with this paragraph* : " We faw this day abundance of 

 " camels, but they did not come near enough for us to moot 

 * them." — I thought with myfelf, to Jhoot camels in Egypt 

 would be very little better than to^ooMnen, and that it. was 

 very lucky for him the camels did. not come near, if that 

 was the only thing that prevented him. Upon looking at 

 the note, I fee it is a fmall miftake of the tranflator f, who 

 fays, ** that in the original it is Chameaux d'eau, water-- 

 " camels; but whether they are a particular fpecies of camels, 

 ** or 2 different kind of animal, he does not know. 



But 



•"Norden's Travels, vol. ii. p. 17. 



•fl cannot* here orah to rectify another fmall miftake of the tranflator, which involves 

 am in a difference with this Author which he did not mean. — 



Mr Norden, in the French, fays, that the mafter of his veffel being much frightened, 

 " avoit perdu la tramontane;" the true meaning of which is, That he had loft his- judgment, 

 not loft the north-wind, as it is tranflated, which is really nonfenfe. 



Norden's Travels , vol. ii. p. 53, 



