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noufs, called Takaki. Some of thefe miferable wretches, 
were brought to the count, and a treaty made, that all thefe 
men of the two villages were to affift him in his re-em- 
barkation, after he had got his barge round the cataract ; 
and among thefe bar barians he would have loft his life. 
Tue count, befides his wife, had brought with him his 
lieutenant, Mr Norden, a Dane, who was to ferve him as 
draughtfman; but neither the count, countefs, nor lieuten- 
ant underftood one word of the languages. There are always 
{happily for travellers) wife and honeft men among the 
French and Venetian merchants at Cairo, who, feeing the 
obftinacy of the count, perfuaded him that it was more mi- 
litary, and more in the ftile of an admiral, to detach Nor- 
den, his inferior officer, to reconnoitre Ibrim, Deir, and the 
cataract of Jan Adel, as alfo to renew his treaty with the 
Kennoufs at Succoot and Afel Dimmo, 
‘NorpeENn accordingly failed in the common embarkations 
ufed upon the Nile ; the voyage is in every body’s hands. It 
has certainly a confiderable deal of merit, but is full of 
{quabbles and fightings with boat-men and porters, which 
might as well have been left out, as they lead to no inftruc- 
tion, but ferve only to difcourage travellers, for they were 
chiefly owing to ignorance of language. It was with the 
utmoft difficulty, and after many difafters, that Norden ar- 
rived at Syené, and the firft cataract; after which greater 
and greater were encountered before he reached Ibrim, 
where the Kafcheff put him in prifon, robbed him of what 
he had in the boat, and fcarcely fuffered him to return to 
Cairo without cutting his throat, which, for a confiderable 
time, he and his foldiers had determined to do. . 
‘Tuas 
