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fecuring a permanent protedlion from the fmi's opprcfIl;'e heat. In ali other places, though we had travelled con- flan dy in forefls, we never met with a tree that could ihade •us for a moment, the fire having deprived them of all their leaves.
Late tibi gurgite rtipto
Ambitur n'lgr'is Mero'e facunda colonis^ Lata conns hebcjii ; qtiiE qiiamvh arbore miilth Frondeat^ ceftatem nulla ftbi mit'igat iimbra^ Linea tarn reBum mundiferit ilia Iconcm.
Luc AN.
Having refreflied ourfelves for near two hours by the enjoyment of this water at Imgellalib, and raked a fufficient quantity of fand over the dead bodies of our two compa- nions, from piety and decency rather than for ufe, we aban- doned them to the hysenas, who had already fmelled the mortality, and were coming, two and three together, at the diftance of a long fhot from the well where we were then drinking. We fet out at eleven, our road being thro' a very extenfive plain ; and, at two in the afternoon, we alighted at another well, called Garigana ; the water was bad, and in fmall quantity. In this plain is fituated the principal village of Atbara, called Teawa. The thermometer, flung under the camel, in the fhade of the girba of water, had yet, neverthelefs, varied within thefe three hours from 1 1 1" to ii9i-.
At five o'clock we left Garigana, our journey being ft ill to the eaftward of north; and, at a quarter paft fix in the evening arrived at the village of that name, whofe inhabitants had
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