A Voyage to Æthiopia in the year[s] 1698, 1699, and 1700.

I set out from Cair[o], the metropolis of Egypt, on the 10th of June ¹ of the year 1698, in company of Hagi Ali, an officer of the Emperour of Æthiopia, and Father Charles Francis Xaverius De Brevedent, missioner of the Jesuits. We imbark’d upon the Nile at Boulack, which is half a league distant from that city. The waters being low and our pilots very unskilful, we spent fifteen days before we reach’d Manfelou; ² altho’, when the river is high and with a favourable gale, that journey is usually made in five days.