. Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five volumes . CimJini /u/>h//iil J),;://:/-,tfy. & A u APPENDIX. 173 laave made it lighter, fweeter, and more exhaleable in dew,that is in the beginning of the feafon of the tropical rains,when all water-fowl, that are birds of paflage, refort to Ethi-opia in great numbers. As I have obferved this bird has loll its name, fo in thehiftory of Egypt and Ethiopia we have loft a bird, once veryremarkable, of which now nothing remains but the name,this is the Ibis, to which divine
. Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five volumes . CimJini /u/>h//iil J),;://:/-,tfy. & A u APPENDIX. 173 laave made it lighter, fweeter, and more exhaleable in dew,that is in the beginning of the feafon of the tropical rains,when all water-fowl, that are birds of paflage, refort to Ethi-opia in great numbers. As I have obferved this bird has loll its name, fo in thehiftory of Egypt and Ethiopia we have loft a bird, once veryremarkable, of which now nothing remains but the name,this is the Ibis, to which divine honours were paid, whofebodies were embalmed and preferved with the fame care asthofe of men. There ftill remain many repofitories full ofthem in Egypt, and appear everywhere in collections inthe hands of the curious. Though the manner that thefebirds are prepared, and cauftic ingredients, with which thebody is injected, have greatly altered the confiflency of theirparts, and the colour of their plumage, yet it is from thefe,viewed and compared deliberately, and at leifure, that Iam convinced the Abou Hannes
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