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make is, that they cannot procure frankincenfe, without 
which, it feems, their mafs or fervice cannot be celebrated ; 
but the truth is, they are ftill Pagans; and the church, ie. 
ving been built in memory of a victory over them above a 
hundred years ago, is not a favourite obje& before their 
eyes, but a memorial of their inferiority and misfortune, 
This church is called St Michael Sacala, to diftinguith it 
from another more to ) the fouthward, called St Micheyt 
Geeth.; 
Ar three. quarters after one we arrived at the top of 
the mountain, whence we had a diftinct view of all the re- 
maining territory of Sacala, the mountain Geefh, and 
church of St Michael Geefh, about a mile and a half diftant 
from St Michael Sacala, where we then were. We faw,im- 
mediately below us, the Nile itfelf, ftrangely diminifhed in 
fize,and now only a brook that had fcarcely water to turn a — 
mill. I could not fatiate myfelf with the fight, revolving in 
my mind all thofe claflical prophecies that had given the 
Nile up to perpetual obfcurity and concealment. The lines 
of the poet came immediately into my mind, and I enjoy- 
ed here, for the firft time, the triumph which already, by 
the protection of Providence, and my own intrepidity, I 
had gained over all that were powerful, and all that were 
learned, fince the remoteft antiquity:—_ 
4 E \ 
Arcanum natura caput non prodidit ulli, 
Nee licuit populis parvum te, Nile, videre ; 
Amovitque finus, et gentes maluit ortus 
Mirari, quam néffe tuos, 
"Lucan. 
I was 
