ABSTRACT
We have strayed far from the thread of my narrative, which I interrupted at the point where I was at the edge of the River Nile, to include the digression just concluded concerning its secrets, source, current and inundations. Since we are about to cross it, I must report that I was of use in giving a name to a place where people can cross; for until that time the people had discovered no passage other than the ordinary one called Baad, named after the province of the same name, where it was located. Since I arrived there with many other people who had also come to cross the river and as some were starting to cross it and there was only one of the boats made of bundles of thick logs, which I have mentioned earlier, I became tired of waiting while the others were crossing and walked off with three or four men, going upstream along the edge of the Nile; and, because of the advantageous placement of stones I observed, I went through the trees there were along the river and, passing from one stone to another, the Nile lending itself to this all the way across because the water stayed below the tops of these rocks, I kept making progress across the river, so that I, along with the others I was taking with me, reached the other side with my feet as dry as they had been when I started, much to the amazement of those who saw us already there and had no knowledge of the said passage. Some of them immediately went to find it and were also able to cross there. From that time forward the passage has been known and named as the passage of Father Jeronimo.
