Produced by Chris Curnow, Wayne Hammond and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) SELECT SPECIMENS OF NATURAL HISTORY, COLLECTED IN Travels to discover the Source of the NILE, IN EGYPT, ARABIA, ABYSSINIA, AND NUBIA. [Illustration: ΑΙΕΙ ΦΕΡΕΙ ΤΙ ΛΙΒΥΗ ΚΑΙΝΟΝ _Arist. Hist. Anim. Lib. 8._] VOL. V. “AND HE SPAKE OF TREES, FROM THE CEDAR-TREE THAT IS IN LEBANON, EVEN UNTO THE HYSSOP THAT SPRINGETH OUT OF THE WALL: HE SPAKE ALSO OF BEASTS, AND OF FOWL, AND OF CREEPING THINGS, AND OF FISHES.” 1 KINGS, chap. iv. ver. 33. EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY J. RUTHVEN, FOR G. G. J. AND J. ROBINSON, PATERNOSTER-ROW, LONDON. M.DCC.XC. CONTENTS OF THE FIFTH VOLUME. INTRODUCTION, P. i OF PLANTS, SHRUBS, AND TREES. _Papyrus,_ P 1 _Balessan, Balm, or Balsam_, 16 _Sassa, Myrrh, Opocalpasum_, 27 _Ergett Y’dimmo_, 34 _Ergett el Krone_, 35 _Ensete_, 36 _Kol-quall_, 41 _Rack_, 44 _Gir Gir, or Gesh el Aube_, 47 _Kantuffa_, 49 _Gaguedi_, 52 _Wanzey_, 54 _Farek, or Bauhinia Acuminata_, 57 _Kuara_, 65 _Walkuffa_, 67 _Wooginoos, or Brucea Antidysenterica_, 69 _Cusso, or Bankesia Abyssinica_, 73 _Teff_, 76 OF QUADRUPEDS. _Rhinoceros_, 85 _Hyæna_, 107 _Jerboa_, 121 _Fennec_, 128 _Ashkoko_, 139 _Booted Lynx_, 146 OF BIRDS. _Nisser, or Golden Eagle_, 155 _Black Eagle_, 159 _Rachamah_, 163 _Erkoom_, 169 _Moroc_, 178 _Sheregrig_, 182 _Waalia_, 186 _Tsaltsalya, or Fly_, 188 _El Adda_, 193