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" When he behaves better, it will be time enough for that, 

 41 faid I? — If you are a friend of his, advife him to be quiet, 

 " before an order comes from Cairo by a Serach, and car- 

 " ries him thither. Your countryman Rifle would not give 

 " me the advice you do?" 



Risk! fays he; Do you know Rifk? Is not that RifkV wri- 

 ting, faid I, fhewing him a letter from the Bey? Wallah ! 

 (by God) it is, fays he, and away he went without fpeaking 

 a word farther. 



The faint had taken his half-crown, and had gone away 

 fmging, it being now near dark. — The cadi went away, and 

 the mob difperfed, and we directed a Moor to cry, That all 

 people fhould, in the night-time, keep away from the tent, 

 or they would be fired at ; a Hone or two were afterwards 

 thrown, but did not reach us. 



I finished my obfervation, and afcertained the latitude 

 of Dendera, then packed up my inftruments, and fent them 

 on board. 



Mr Norden feems greatly to have miftaken the pofition 

 of this town, which, confpicuous and celebrated as it is by 

 ancient authors, and juftly a principal point of attention to 

 modern travellers, he does not fo much as defcribe ; and, in 

 his map, he places Dendera twenty or thirty miles to the 

 fouthward of Badjoura ; whereas it is about nine miles to 

 the northward. For Badjoura is in lat. 26 3', and Dendera 

 is in 26 10C 



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