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 394 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER

that day in mounting and reftifying my quadrant, and that fame evening had a clear and diftinft obfervation of Procyon, and feveral other of the fixed flars, the largeft and fitted for my purpofe. The next day alfo, having a good obfervation of the fun in the meridian, all equations adopt- ed from a mean, I found the latitude of Teawa, the capital of Atbara, to be 14° 2' 4" north. With regard to longitude, Hor-Cacamoot is about fix miles eaft of Teawa, which is near- ly under the fame meridian with Ras el Feel, fo there was no occafion for any obfervation on that fubjed.

On the 13th of April arrived a naked Arab of the Jehaina, %vith intelligence that a caravan belonging to Atbara, which had come to Nara in Abyflinia for fait, had been all feized by Ammonios, Ayto Confu's governor of Nara, their affes and fait taken from them, and the men put in clofe pri- fon. The Shekh of the Jehaina, an old man of very comely prefence, with ten or twelve of his clan on camels, came over to Shekh Fidele that morning before I went out, and they found the Moullah fitting with him. The news firuck all of them with a panic, but none more fo than our Shekh of Atbara. The Shekh of the Jehaina faid he had not heard the caufe of it, but fo violent a prdcedure had not happened even when Yafous II. invaded Sennaar, for the people of the two frontiers had all that time been friends. He begged, however, Shekh Fidele immediately to interfere, and fend fome perfon to Ras el Feel, to his friend Yafine. When they had fettled thus far, a meffage came for me to attend the Shekh. I immediately went, leaving my fervants to put up my quadrant. I had, indeed, an inclination to obferve the approaching eclipfe ; biit as I knew perfcdlily the fitua- tion of Teawa with regard to- Ras el Feel, I thought I

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