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But this is no fpecies of camel, it is a bird called a Peli- 

 can, and the proper name in Arabic, is Jimmel el Bahar, the 

 Camel of the -River. The other bird like a partridge, which 

 MrNorden's people {hot,- and did not know its name, and 

 which was better than a pigeon, is called Gooto, very com- 

 mon in all the defert parts of Africa. I have drawn them 

 of many different colours. That of the Deferts of Tripoli, 

 and Cyrenaicum, is very beautiful ; that of Egypt is fpotted 

 white like the Guinea-fowl, but upon a brown ground, not 

 a blue one, as that latter bird is. However, they are all very 

 bad to eat, but they are not of the fame kind with the par- 

 tridge. Its legs and feet are all covered with feathers, and 

 it has but two toes before. The Arabs imagine it feeds on 

 ilones, but its food is infects. 



After Comadreedy, the Nile is again divided by another 

 fragment of the ifland, and inclines a little to the weftward. 

 On the eaft is the village Sidi Ali el Courani. It has only 

 two palm-trees belonging to it, and on that account hath 

 a deferted appearance ; but the wheat mpon the banks was 

 iive inches high, and more advanced than any we had feen. 

 The mountains on die eaft-fide come down to the banks of 

 the Nile, are bare, white, and fan dy, and there is en this fide 

 no appearance of villages. 



The river here is about a quarter of a mile broad, or 

 fomcthing more. It mould feem it was the Angyrorum 

 Civitas of Ptolemy, but neither night nor day could I get 

 an hrflant for obfervation, on account of thin white clouds, 

 .which confufed (for they fcarce can be faid to cover) the 

 ns continually, 



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