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reminded of the fact by the frequent sight of the Italian manu- 
script journal^ &c. written by Bahigani, which is full of his own 
personal observations, and from which we know that Mr. Bruce, 
in writing his work, continually made extracts ? Surely such a 
total loss of all the common faculties of memory is scarcely pos- 
sible. But it may, perhaps, be asked, what motives Mr. Bruce 
could have had for such wilful deviations from the truth ? The 
answer is plain : that he was impelled to it by an anxious and 
vehement desire of obtaining the sole credit of having first visited 
the sources of the Nile, and an aversion from his being known to 
have had any partner in his researches on this occasion ; motives 
which however unworthy of an enlightened mind, are known to 
have operated so strongly on our author's feelings, that he has 
made them the ruling features in his work, as the very title. 
Journey to discover the sources of the Nile," his romantic ex- 
ultation on that particular point in his preface, and his continual 
misrepresentations respecting Lobo and Peter Paiz, for having 
preceded him in this hazardous enterprise, sufficiently prove. 
Before I quit this subject, I shall notice one additional instance 
of decided contradiction that occurs between the printed narra- 
tive and the original notes published by his late editors, which 
may serve to give the reader a pretty correct notion of the manner 
in which this author wrought up and embellished his original 
observations : in accomplishing which he has evinced a power of 
interesting the feelings that is almost unexampled. The circum- 
stance to which I refer is Mr. Bruce's account of the discovery of 
King Joas's body and the events to which it gave rise.* In the 
* Vide Vol. V. p. 164, et seq. and Vol. VI. p. 64. &c. 
