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TRAVELS
TO DISCOVER
THE SOURCE OF THE NILE.
BOOK VI.
First Attempt to discover the Source of the Nile frustrated—A successful Journey thither, with a full Account of every Thing relating to that celebrated River.
CHAP. I.
The Author made Governor of Ras el Feel.
I soon received an instance of kindness from Ayto Confu which gave me great pleasure on several accounts. On the south part of Abyssinia, on the frontiers of Sennaar, is a hot, unwholesome, low stripe of country, inhabited entirely by Mahometans, divided into several small districts, known by the general name of Mazaga. Of this Ihave
