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38 TRAVELS IN EGYPT
Ell Gaesser, Gasserusejaed, Jasenie, and Fau. These sour villages were to
our left; and we passed at the fame time on our right, three others, namely
Reiesie, Netzche Ell Abiid, and Dinedera. Near this last place we saw
several crocodiles, extended upon banks os sand, which the running oss os the
waters os the Nile had lest dry. We came up fucceslively to three other villages,
situated on the same side, and which are named
Cassarna, Senaepsi, and Ell Woks. The last is remarkable, because it is
in its neighbourhood that the territory os the Arabs called Hanara terminates;
and the fecond has, oppofite to it, another village, named
Dischne, or Deheschne. This name, which fignisies admiration^ was
given it srom hence, that the Arabs, who went up the Nile, here found them-
selves at a lofs to know on which fide they mould turn, when they would pray.
They had regulated themfelyes before, according to the courfe of the Nile, which
they knew to go from fouth to north. They had by confequence the riling fun
to their left, and the fetting fun to the right. But it was no more fo when they
were in this place. The Nile here makes an elbow, which was the reafon that
they faw the fun rise on their right \ They were in a great amazement at it;
which occasioned the name of Deheschne^ or admiration, to be given to this place.
Near this lame place, we saw several sloats, sormed of earthen pots, tied
together by twifted ofiers. It is the ordinary manner of conveyance, and there
need but two men to govern fuch a float. At eight in the evenino- we were
becalmed. We perceived that the current carried us backwards; fo that we
caft anchor on the weftern border of the river, where there runs a great barren
plain, covered with sand, and fome brambles. The neareft village to us was
Meraschde n. We had opposite, on the other side os the Nile, the village os
SAE IDA.
Saturday, 7th of December.
OUR people went, very early in the morning, ashore, to seek sor some game;
they found nothing but a prodigious quantity os sparrows. They shot several
of them, and picked up about a hundred amongft the brambles. They were,
however, extremely meager, and of a bitter taste.
At eight o'clock in the morning, we quitted this unsruitsul land; and we
soon got to the village os
See the map
os the Nile, D a r, fituated on the eaftern more of the Nile; and directly opposite is
XCVI. Magdscher. This is a name that they give to a great road, which goes from
east to weft.
a It was probably owing to a like change os had four times changed its rising and fetting; so as
situation by their migrations, that the Egyptians to rise where it now fets, and to set where it now
thought, according to Herodotus, that the sun rises. Herodotus, book ii. cap. 142.
We
Ell Gaesser, Gasserusejaed, Jasenie, and Fau. These sour villages were to
our left; and we passed at the fame time on our right, three others, namely
Reiesie, Netzche Ell Abiid, and Dinedera. Near this last place we saw
several crocodiles, extended upon banks os sand, which the running oss os the
waters os the Nile had lest dry. We came up fucceslively to three other villages,
situated on the same side, and which are named
Cassarna, Senaepsi, and Ell Woks. The last is remarkable, because it is
in its neighbourhood that the territory os the Arabs called Hanara terminates;
and the fecond has, oppofite to it, another village, named
Dischne, or Deheschne. This name, which fignisies admiration^ was
given it srom hence, that the Arabs, who went up the Nile, here found them-
selves at a lofs to know on which fide they mould turn, when they would pray.
They had regulated themfelyes before, according to the courfe of the Nile, which
they knew to go from fouth to north. They had by confequence the riling fun
to their left, and the fetting fun to the right. But it was no more fo when they
were in this place. The Nile here makes an elbow, which was the reafon that
they faw the fun rise on their right \ They were in a great amazement at it;
which occasioned the name of Deheschne^ or admiration, to be given to this place.
Near this lame place, we saw several sloats, sormed of earthen pots, tied
together by twifted ofiers. It is the ordinary manner of conveyance, and there
need but two men to govern fuch a float. At eight in the evenino- we were
becalmed. We perceived that the current carried us backwards; fo that we
caft anchor on the weftern border of the river, where there runs a great barren
plain, covered with sand, and fome brambles. The neareft village to us was
Meraschde n. We had opposite, on the other side os the Nile, the village os
SAE IDA.
Saturday, 7th of December.
OUR people went, very early in the morning, ashore, to seek sor some game;
they found nothing but a prodigious quantity os sparrows. They shot several
of them, and picked up about a hundred amongft the brambles. They were,
however, extremely meager, and of a bitter taste.
At eight o'clock in the morning, we quitted this unsruitsul land; and we
soon got to the village os
See the map
os the Nile, D a r, fituated on the eaftern more of the Nile; and directly opposite is
XCVI. Magdscher. This is a name that they give to a great road, which goes from
east to weft.
a It was probably owing to a like change os had four times changed its rising and fetting; so as
situation by their migrations, that the Egyptians to rise where it now fets, and to set where it now
thought, according to Herodotus, that the sun rises. Herodotus, book ii. cap. 142.
We