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fide of the Nile, about twenty miles beyond Syene, or AlTou*. an, nearer Cairo. I alked him why he had not gone with Mahomet Towafli? He faid, he did not like the company, and was very much miftaken if their journey ended welh Upon preHlng him further if this was really the only rea- fon; he then told me, that he had been fick for fome months at Chendi, contraded debt, and had been obUged to pawn his cloaths, and that his camel was detained for what Hill remained unpaid. After much converfation, repeated feveral' days, I found that Idris (for that was his name) was a man of fome fubftancc in his own country, and had a daughter married to the Schourbatchie at AiTouan. He faid that this was his laft journey, for he never would crofs the defert again. A bargain was nowfoon made. I redeemed his camel and cloak; he was to lliew me the way to Egypt, and he was there to be recompenfed, according to his beha- viour.

Chendi, by repeated obfervations of the fun and (lars, made for feveral fucceeding days and nights, I fo.und to be in lat. 16° 38' ^s" north, and at the lame place, the 13th of Ocflober, I obferved an immerfion of the firil fateUite of Ju- piter, from which I concluded its longitude to be 33° 24' 45" eaft of the meridian of Greenwich. Tiie higheft degree of the thermometer of Fahrenheit in the fliade was, on the loth of oarober, at one o'clock P. M. 1 19°, wind north; the loweft was on the nth, at midnight, 87°, wind well, after a fmall Ihower of rain.

I PREPARED now to Icave Chendi, but firfl returned my benefaftrefs Sittina thanks for all her favours. She had called for Idris, and given him very pofitive inflrudions,

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