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confufion then reigning at Sennaar, and that in pro- 
portion as the road he took was indirect, the le{s 
fufpicion would be entertained of him as a Frank, 
the greater experience he muft acquire among the 
people of the interior, and the more eafily he might 
be fuffered to pafs as a mere trader. 
He had been taught, that the expeditions in queft 
of Haves, undertaken by the people of Fur and its 
neighbourhood, extended often forty or more days 
to the Southward. This, at the lowefl: computation, 
gave a diftance of five degrees on a meridian, and 
the fingle hope of penetrating fo much farther 
Southward than any preceding traveller, was worth 
an effort to realize. He owns, he did not then 
forefee all the inconveniences of being expofed, on 
the one hand, to the band of plunderers whom he 
was to accompany, and on the other, to the jufi: 
refentment of the wretched vidims whom they were 
to enthral. Perhaps thofe very evils were magnified 
greatly beyond their real value by the Furians to 
whom he applied, and who were predetermined not 
to allow him to pafs. 
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