624 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER. 
efpecially huge, long-haired baboons, which we frequently 
~met walking upright. Through thefe high and difficult 
mountains we have only narrow paths, like thofe of theep, 
made by the goats, or the wild beafts we are {peaking of, 
which, after we had walked on them for a long f{pace, land- 
ed us frequently at the edge of fome valley, or precipice, 
and forced us to go back again to fearch for a new road. 
From towards Zeegam, to the weftward, and from the plain 
where the river winds fo much, is the only eafy accefs to 
the fountains of the Nile, and they that afcend to them by 
this way will not think even that approach too ealy. | 
Ir remains only for me to fay, Shae neither have che Jette’ 
(Paez his brethren in the miffion, and his contemporaries) 
- made any geographical ufe of this difcovery, either in lon- 
gitude or latitude; nor have the hiftorians of his fociety; 
who have followed afterwards, with all the information and 
documents before them, thought proper even to quote his 
travels ; it will not be eafy, from the authority of a man like 
Athanafius Kircher, writing at Rome, to fupport the reality 
of fuch a difcovery, not to be found in the genuine writings 
of Peter Paez himfelf. With fuch a voyage, if it had been 
real, there {hould have been publifhed at leaft an itinerary, _ 
and moft of the Jefuits were capable enough to have made 
a rough obfervation of longitude and latitude, in the coun- 
try where they refided, for near one hundred years. Add 
to this, no obfervation appears from any Jefuit of the idola- 
try or pagan worfhip, which prevailed near the fource of 
the Nile, and this would feem to have been their imamediate 
province. 
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