2i4 THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 



rocky, the north is low and ends in a tail, or floping bank, 

 but is exceedingly fteep to, and at the length of your 

 bark any way from it, you have no foundings. 



All this morning fince before day, our pilot had begged 

 us to go no farther. He faid the wind had changed ; that, 

 by infallible ligns he had feen to the fouthward, he was 

 confident (without any chance of being miftaken) that in 

 twenty-four hours we mould have a (torm, which would 

 put us in danger of ihipwreck ; that Frat, which I wanted 

 to fee, was immediately oppofite to Jidda, fo that either a 

 country, or Englifh boat would run me over in a night and 

 a day, when I might procure people who had connections 

 in the country, fo as to be under no apprehenfion of any 

 accident ; but that, in the prefent track I was going, every 

 man that I mould meet was my enemy. Although not 

 very fuiceptible of fear, my ears were never ihut againfb 

 reafon, and to what the pilot Hated, I added in my own 

 breaft, that we might be blown out to fea, and want both 

 water and provifion. We, therefore, dined as quickly as 

 poffible, and encouraged one another all we could. A little 

 pafter fix the wind came eaflerly, and changeable, with a 

 thick haze over the land. This cleared about nine in the 

 evening, and one of the nneft and fteadieil gales that ever 

 blew, carried us fwiftly on, directly for CofTeir. The fky 

 was full of dappled clouds, fo that, though I, feveral times, 

 tried to catch a ftar in the meridian, I was always fruflrated. 

 The wind became freiher, but Hill very fair. 



The 19th, at day-break, we faw the land ftretching all 

 the way northward, and, foon after, diitinctly difcerned 



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