270: TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
| Ar Addergey, the 31ft day of January, at ‘noon, I obferved’ 
the meridian altitude of the fun, and, at night, the paflage 
of feven different ftars over the meridian, by a medium of 
all which, I found that the latitude of Addergey is 13° 24’ 56” 
North. And on the morning of the 1ft of February, at the 
fame place, I obferved an immerfion of the fecond fatellite 
of Jupiter, by which I concluded the longitude of Addergey, 
to be 37° 57’ eaft of the. meridian of. Greenwich.. 
_On the ait of rebraaty, at half paft nine in the morning;: 
we left Addergey :. hunger prefling us, we were prepared to: 
doit earlier; and. for this we had beeatigrhade dire in the 
morning ;, but our lofs of a mule obliged us, when we: 
packed: up our tent, to arrange our baggage diflerently.. 
While employed at making ready for our departure, which: 
was juft in the dawn of day, a hyena; unfeen by any of. us,. 
faftened upon one of Yafine’s affes, and had amok philed 
his tailaway. Iwas bufied at gathering the tent-pins: into: 
a tack, and had placed my mufket, and: bayonet ready. 
again{ta tree, as it is at that hour, and the clofe of the eve. 
ning, you are always to be on guard’ againft banditti, A’ 
Boy, who was fervant to Yafine, faw the hyzna firft, and! 
flew to my mufket.- Yafine was disjoinin g the poles of the: 
tent, and, having one half of the largeft.in. his. hand, he rani 
to the affiftance of his afs, and in that moment the mufket 
went off, luckily charged with only oné' ball, which ‘gave 
Yafine a flefh wound between the thumb.and forefinger of 
his left hand. The boy inftantly. threw down: the mufket,, 
which had terrified the hyena: and: made him let go the: 
afs; but he ftood ready to- fight: Yafine; who; not amu- 
fing himfelf with. the choice of weapons, gave him fo: 
rude: 
