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A N D N U B I A. *3
JSTetschaschiellava. Asterwards, havingpafled
SchachTamisch, a village situated also on the western shore, we made sad
the barque at a quarter os a league from the village os
Sallaem, fituated likewise on the same side.
We faw that day the sirst crocodile. It was extended upon a bank os sand,
that the decreafe of the waters of the Nile had occafioned above the level of the
river. When he faw our barque approach, he threw himfelf forwards and
flattened, though heavily, into the water. We judged him to be ten feet in
length.
Thursday, 2,8thos November.
FOR want os wind, we this morning got our barque to be towed by our failors.
It was a hard work for thefe poor wretches; for it was very cold weather, and
they had scarce any thing to cover them. It was necefTary, however, to refolve
upon it, that we might be able to double the elbow, that the Nile makes between
Benuup Ell Ha man, a village, which was on our lest, and See t^e mi^
of the course
Sallaem Ell Odder, another village, that we lest on our right. °fthe Nile»
Plate
The elbow that the Nile makes in this place, is fo confiderable, that srom LXXXIIL
Sallaem Ell Odder to the point os Siuut, that is to say in the space os more than
three leagues, our rout was from north to eaft. At halsway we found two villages,
the one to our right, named
Mangabar; the other to the left, called
Ell Ekrat. There is, between these two villages, an island of three quarters
os a league in length. Notwithftanding all our care, it was not poiiible to
prevent our barque from striking feveral times opposite this ifland ; but as we
had fine weather we got oss without much difficulty.
In the asternoon, we doubled the point os
Siuut. This town has the figure of another capital. It has a casches, and
some mosques; and it is the see os a Copti bishop.' This place is the rendezvous os
those that have a mind to be of the caravan, that fets out from Siuut sorSennar.
We flopped there long enough for my drawing a view of this town, and its
antique grottos. Plate
LXXXIV.
Thefe grottos, named at present Sababinathy are made in the mountain called
Tjchebat ell Kofferi. You go up it sor two hours, besore you arrive at the slrst.
gate, to which the way up the mountain leads. You enter, through this gate,
into a great faloon, supported by hexagonal pillars, contrived in the rock itfelf.
The roofs are adorned with paintings, which we distinguifh extremely well even
at prefent; and the gold that was employed there glitters on all fides. The
pavement
JSTetschaschiellava. Asterwards, havingpafled
SchachTamisch, a village situated also on the western shore, we made sad
the barque at a quarter os a league from the village os
Sallaem, fituated likewise on the same side.
We faw that day the sirst crocodile. It was extended upon a bank os sand,
that the decreafe of the waters of the Nile had occafioned above the level of the
river. When he faw our barque approach, he threw himfelf forwards and
flattened, though heavily, into the water. We judged him to be ten feet in
length.
Thursday, 2,8thos November.
FOR want os wind, we this morning got our barque to be towed by our failors.
It was a hard work for thefe poor wretches; for it was very cold weather, and
they had scarce any thing to cover them. It was necefTary, however, to refolve
upon it, that we might be able to double the elbow, that the Nile makes between
Benuup Ell Ha man, a village, which was on our lest, and See t^e mi^
of the course
Sallaem Ell Odder, another village, that we lest on our right. °fthe Nile»
Plate
The elbow that the Nile makes in this place, is fo confiderable, that srom LXXXIIL
Sallaem Ell Odder to the point os Siuut, that is to say in the space os more than
three leagues, our rout was from north to eaft. At halsway we found two villages,
the one to our right, named
Mangabar; the other to the left, called
Ell Ekrat. There is, between these two villages, an island of three quarters
os a league in length. Notwithftanding all our care, it was not poiiible to
prevent our barque from striking feveral times opposite this ifland ; but as we
had fine weather we got oss without much difficulty.
In the asternoon, we doubled the point os
Siuut. This town has the figure of another capital. It has a casches, and
some mosques; and it is the see os a Copti bishop.' This place is the rendezvous os
those that have a mind to be of the caravan, that fets out from Siuut sorSennar.
We flopped there long enough for my drawing a view of this town, and its
antique grottos. Plate
LXXXIV.
Thefe grottos, named at present Sababinathy are made in the mountain called
Tjchebat ell Kofferi. You go up it sor two hours, besore you arrive at the slrst.
gate, to which the way up the mountain leads. You enter, through this gate,
into a great faloon, supported by hexagonal pillars, contrived in the rock itfelf.
The roofs are adorned with paintings, which we distinguifh extremely well even
at prefent; and the gold that was employed there glitters on all fides. The
pavement