s of an ancient temple,
where are to be seen two colossal statues. I set out the next day with
him to visit this place, but being then only convalescent from a bloody
flux which had reduced my strength, I found myself too weak to reach the
place, and returned to the boat.]

[Footnote 18: The river continues in the same general direction as high
up as the island of Mograt, on the Third Cataract, when it resumes a
course more south and north. The length of this bend is probably not
less than two hundred and fifty miles.]

[Footnote 19: i.e. The bank on our left-hand ascending the river.]

[Footnote 20: A more particular account of this battle will be given
hereafter, in the course of the narrative.]

[Footnote 21: These gentlemen were Messrs. Waddington and Hanbury,
who, after staying a short time in our camp, returned to Egypt. Mr.
Waddington, on his return to England, published an account of his
travels on the upper Nile, in which, having been misled by the tongue
of some mischievous enemy of mine, he gave an account of me not a little
fabulous. On my arrival in London, I wrote to Mr. Waddington what he
was pleased to call a "manly and temperate letter," informing him of
his error, representing to him the serious injury it might do me, and
calling upon him for a justification or an apology. Mr. Waddington, in
the manner best becoming an English gentleman, frankly gave me both,
concluding with the following expressions--"I feel the most sincere and
profound sorrow for the unintentional injustice into which I have been
betrayed by too hasty a belief of false information. For this I am as
anxious to make you reparation, as I am incapable of doing any person a
willful injury. I will therefore cause the note in question to be erased
in the following editions of my book; and in the remaining copies of the
present, I will instantly insert a new page or sheet, if necessary;
or should that be impossible, I will immediately destroy the whole
impression." It was impossible for me, after this, to retain any of
the angry feelings excited by this affair, excepting towards "the false
tongue" that occasioned it, on which I cordially imprecate a plentiful
portion of the "sharp arrows of the mighty and coals of juniper."]

[Footnote 22: The desperate courage of these wretched peasants was
astonishing; they advanced more than once to the muzzles of the cannon,
and wounded some of the cannoneers in the act of re-loading their guns.
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