that day in mounting and rectifying my quadrant, and
that fame evening had a. clear and diftincl obfervation o f
Procyon, and feveral other o f the fixed ftars, the largeft and
fitted: for my purpofe. The next day alfo, having a good
obfervation o f the fun in the meridian, all equations adopted
from a mean, 1 found the latitude o f Teawa, the capital
o f Atbara, to be 14° 2'jp" north. With regard to longitude*
Hor-Cacamoot is about fix miles eall o f Teawa, which is nearly
under the fame meridian with Ras el Feel, fo there was.
no occafion for any obfervation on that fubjeft.
On the 13th o f April arrived a naked A rab o f the Jehaina,
with intelligence that a caravan belonging to Atbara, which
had come to Nara in Abyflinia for fait, had been all feized
b y Ammonios, Ayto Confu’s governor o f Nara, their affes
and fait taken from them, and the men put in clofe pri-
fon. The Shekh o f the Jehaina, an old man o f very comely
prefence, with ten or twelve o f 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 ilru ck
all o f them with a panic, but none more fo, than our Shekh
o f Atbara. The Shekh o f the Jehaina faid he had not heard,
the caufe o f it, but fo violent a procedure had not happened
even when Yafous II. invaded Sennaar, for the people o f 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 ; but as I knew perfectly the fitua-
tion o f Teawa with regard to Ras el Feel, I thought I
might
might fpare my felf this unneceffary trouble, and only m ake
ufe o f the eclipfe to frighten Fidele as part o f the pumfh-
ment he fo amply deferved.
T h e r e was a prodigious number o f people affembled at
the Shekh’s door. The Jehaina had a ll come upon camels ;
two or three o f the principal ones were fitting w ith him and
the Moullah. One o f thefe, whom I did hot know, but who
had feen me at Ras el Feel, upon my approaching the
Shekh, got up, took me by the hand, and made a very re-
fpectful falutarion. As he was a friend o f Yafine, and Shekh
el Nile, I never doubted from that minute that this was a
contrivance o f theirs in my favour.
T h e M o u l l a h had alledged, that probably I had difpatch-
ed fome intelligence to Yafine o f my being detained, which
had caufed him to make this reprifal; but Shekh Fidele
allured them that he knew it to be impolTible, and that this
feizure o f the caravan muft have been occafioned b y fome
ill-ufage to the people belonging to Tchelga and Nara, the
frontier villages to the weftward. In this the Shekh o f Jehaina
agreed; for he had heard Ammonios mentioned,
but nothing o f Yafine. The Moullah was unconvinced, but
aiked me, * Hakim, have you never fent a complaint to
Yafine fince you came to Teawa t tell me truly ; no harm
{hall befal you from it.’t “ I f I were not to tell you truly
faid I, Shekh, I Would not anfwer you at all. I am under
no obligation to do it, nor am I under any fear. You are
but at the beginning o f this affair, and many w ill fufier
before I do.” “ Truly, fays the Moullah, but have you fent
intelligence to Ras el Feel “ No, no, fays Fidele, he had
it not in his p owe r; nor is there a man in Teawa, t at
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