. Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five volumes . erboa, and therefore though he chews the cud incommon with fome others, and was in great plenty inJudea, fo as to be known by Solomon, yet he cannot be thefaphan of the fcripture. FENNE 128 APPENDIX. ONNEG HPHIS beautiful animal, which has lately fo much excited?*? the curiofity, and exercifed the pens rather than thejudgment of fome naturalifts, was brought to me at Al-giers by Mahomet Rais, my drugoman or janizary, while conful-general to his Majefty in that regency. ? MAHOME
. Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five volumes . erboa, and therefore though he chews the cud incommon with fome others, and was in great plenty inJudea, fo as to be known by Solomon, yet he cannot be thefaphan of the fcripture. FENNE 128 APPENDIX. ONNEG HPHIS beautiful animal, which has lately fo much excited?*? the curiofity, and exercifed the pens rather than thejudgment of fome naturalifts, was brought to me at Al-giers by Mahomet Rais, my drugoman or janizary, while conful-general to his Majefty in that regency. ? MAHOMETRaisboughtit fortwofequins from an acquaint-ance, a Turkiih oldafh, or foot-foldier, juft then returnedfrom Bifcara, a fouthcrn difcnct of Mauritania Caefarienfis,now called the Province of Conflantina. The foldier faidthey were not uncommon in Bifcara, but more frequentlymet with in the neighbouring date territories of Beni Mez-zab and Werglah, the ancient habitations of the Melano-??Gxtuli; in the laix mentioned of which places they huntedthem for their ikins, which they fent by the caravan to2 fell. )/?;///< c ? fremdon ),;:/:y/;v,y. A & Co. APPEND IX. iicy fell at Mecca, and from whence they were after exported toIndia. He faid that he had endeavoured to bring three ofthem, two of which had efcaped by gnawing holes in thecage, I kept this for feveral months at my country-houfenear Algiers, that I might learn its manners. T made fede-ral drawings of it, particularly one in water-colours of itsnatural fize, which has been the original of all thofe badcopies that have fince appeared. Having fatisfied myfelf ofall particulars concerning it, and being about to leave Al-giers, I made a prefent of him to Captain Cleveland, of hismajeflys fhip Phoenix, then in that port, and he gave himto Mr Brander, Swedifh conful in Algiers. A young man,.Balugani, of whom I have already fpoken, then in my fer-vice, in which, indeed, he died, allowed himfelf fo far to befurpr
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