friends at Jibbel Ifriff ; and, i f I then informed him there-
was danger, fhould return to the Jehaina, mount a hajan
or dromedary, and'give Yafine information with all poffible
fpeed. All this being now fettled,-I prepared for my jouiv-
ney, having firft, by many obfervations by night and day, _
fixed., the latitude o f Hor-Cacamoot to be 130 x' 33" north.
3.3.3.
CHAP. IV. ■
From Hor-Cacatnoot to'feawa, Capital of Atbara. ■ '
P" ' f”was on the 17th o f March that we fet out fromHor-Caca-
moot on our journey to Teawa, capital o f the province o f
A tbara.. Our courfe was N. N. W, through thick bruihwood,
with a few high trees ; our companions-being eleven naked
m e n , with affes loaden with fait. We had feveral interruptions
on the road. At three in the afternoon we encamped
at Falaty, the eaft village o f Ras el Feel,, a little to the north-.
ward. A f m a l l mountain, immediately north from this v illage,
the one end o f which is thought to refemble the head
o f an elepharit, gives the name .to the village and the province*.
This mountain ftretches in a direction nearly north
an4 4
* -Ras ¿1 Feel figmiïés the-head 4>£ an-elepljaüt»