432 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
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Pafs the Nile and encamp at Tfoomwa—Arrive at Derdera—Alarmion  . 
approaching the Army—Foin the King at Karcagna. 
N the 22d of May we were all equally defirous to re- 
fume our journey. We fet out accordingly at fix 
o'clock in the morning, afcending fome hills covered, as 
the former ones, with trees and fhrubs, utterly unknown te 
me, but of inexprefflible beauty, and many of extraordinary 
fragrance. We continued afcending about three miles, till 
we came to the top of the ridge within fight of the lake. As 
swe rofe, the hills became more bare and lefs beautiful. We af- 
terwards defcended towards the paflage, partly over fteep 
banks which had been covered with buthes, all trodden down 
by the army, and which had made the accefs to the river ex- 
ceedingly fiippery. Here we faw the ufe of Mahomet’s fervants, 
three of whom, each with a lance in one hand, holding 
that of his companion in the other, waded acrofs the vio- 
lent ftream, founding with the end of their lances .every 
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