THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, m 



It is a great pity, that he who had a tafle for this very 

 remarkable kind of architecture, ihould have paired it, both: 

 in going up and coming down ; as it is, beyond comparifon^ 

 a place that would have given more fatisfaction than all 

 Upper Egypt. 



While we were linking our tent, a great mob came down,., 

 but without the cadi. As I ordered all my people to take their 

 arms in their hands, they kept at a very confiderable dis- 

 tance; but the fool, or faint, got into the boat with a yellow 

 flag in his hand, and fat down at the foot of the main-mall, 

 faying, with an idiot fmile, That we fhould fire, for he was 

 out of the reach of the mot ; fome ftones were thrown, but. 

 did not reach us. 



I ordered two of my fervants with large brafs fhip-blun— 

 derbulfes, very bright and glittering, to get upon the top of. 

 the cabbin. I then pointed a wide-mouthed Swedifh blun- 

 derbufs from one of the windows, and cried out, Have 



a care ; the next Hone that is thrown I fire my cannon: 



amongft you, which will fweep away 300 of you inllantly 

 from the face of the earth ; though I believe there were not: 

 above two hundred then prefent.. 



I ordered Hagi HafTan to call off his cord immediately, 

 and, as foon as the blunderbufs appeared, away ran every 

 one of them, and, before they could collect thernfelves to 

 return, our veilel was in the middle of the flream. The 

 wind was fair, though not very frefh, on which we fet both 

 our fails, and made great way. 



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