APPENDIX. 
xxix 
No. III. 
A short Account of a Voyage made into Ethiopia^ by Father Remedio of 
Bohemia, Martino of Bohemia, and Antonio of Aleppo, of the Order of 
" Minori Reformat^' of St. Francis, and Missionaries of the Society 
for propagating the Faith," in Egypt.^ 
In the month of June, 1751 ^ I, Brother Remedio of Bohemia, reformed 
Missionary for propagating the faith, was recalled from the town of Girge, 
in Upper Egypt, to Grand Cairo, where, by our Prefect established there, I 
was appointed to a mission destined for Ethiopia, together with Father Re- 
medio']' of Bohemia, and Antonio of Aleppo, of the same order. As it was 
wholly impossible for a few persons to penetrate into that country by land, on 
account of the various tribes of Arabs which infest the road, our departure 
was delayed till the 27th of August, when we set out, provided with such 
things as were necessary to found there a new mission, in company with 
a caravan of the Turks destined for Medina and Mecca, to adore their false 
prophet Mahomet. For three days we travelled over the deserts of Egypt, 
where there is neither bread, nor water, nor other sustenance to be pro= 
cured, oa which account travellers carry with them provisions from Cairo, 
sufficient to last till their arrival at Suez. During these three days journey 
we suffered heat that was absolutely insupportable ; the whole desert being 
flat, sandy, waste, and barren ; where travellers are tormented with such 
burning thirst, that before the caravan comes to its halting place, it wears 
.them out with languor and weariness : and as they cannot walk on foot, 
;owing to the burning heat of the sand, they are compelled to ride on camels, 
whose tedious march and uneasy motion soon makes every bone in the body 
ache with fatigue. Being obliged to content ourselves with a scanty supply 
of water and biscuit^ we slept but little, partly from restlessness, and 
partly on account of robbers, which are so numerous, as to prevent Chris- 
* Vide Lord Valentia's Travels, III. p. 210, and Appendix to Mr. Bruce's Travels, VII p. 65. 
t This ought to be Martino, but as the mistake has occurred in the manuscript, I havf , 
thought proper to retain it. ^ 
