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Updated: May 12, 2025
The fate of poor Speke had been still more lamentable: "And see you twain from Britain's foggy shore set forth to span dark Africk's jungle-plain; thy furthest fount, O Nilus! they explore, and where Zaire springs to seek the Main, The Veil of Isis hides thy land no more, whose secrets open to the world are lain.
Orion got out at the principal door of the house, followed by the treasurer; and while the old man welcomed the son of the Mukaukas, Nilus superintended the transfer of a considerable number of heavy sacks to their host's private room. Nothing of all this had seemed noteworthy to Katharina but the quantity and size of the bags full, no doubt, of gold and the man, whom alone she cared to see.
She would have won her bet; for Orion, who had remained unmoved by his sister-in-law's letter, by the warning voice of the faith of his childhood, by the faithful council of his honest servant Nilus, or by the senator's convincing arguments had yielded to Heliodora's sweet blandishments. How ardently had her loving heart flamed up, when she saw him so deeply agitated at the sight of her!
To sit down and write at such a moment he felt was impossible: Nilus should go and speak in his name; and he knew how gladly and zealously he would perform such an errand.
Orion put in; but she went on, addressing herself exclusively to Nilus, and his peers, and ignoring him completely: "Your president, the son of the Mukaukas, knows that, instead of the accused, I might, if I chose, be the accuser. But I scorn it for love of his father, and because I am more high-minded than he. He will understand!
This account, being annually recorded by the master of the rolls, is called the "Pillar of Nilus," because the people, being the riches of the commonwealth, as they are found to rise or fall by the degrees of this pillar, like that river, give an account of the public harvest. But the tribe being dismissed for this night, repaired to their quarters, under the conduct of their new magistrates.
His young master had sent it, in obedience to his deceased father's wishes, for her immediate needs; the rest, the larger part of her fortune, with a full account, would be given over to her after the Mukaukas was buried. Nilus could, however, give her an approximate idea of the sum, and it was so considerable that Paula could not believe her ears.
The chiefe city of Ethiopia, where this great emperor is resident, is called Amacaiz, being a faire citie, whose inhabitants are of the colour of an Oliue. There are also many other cities, as the city of Saua vpon the riuer of Nilus, where the Emperour is accustomed to remaine in the Sommer season.
The two men in the impluvium were not informed of the accident till some time later, for strict orders had been given that they were not to be disturbed. Nilus had received his young master's communication with growing amazement, indignation, and horror.
"The old month ended and the new began." He called the next day that of the new moon. After the twentieth, he no longer reckoned forwards, but backwards, as the moon decreased, until the thirtieth of the month. In this time he thought they would become used to his laws. XXVI. He first went to Egypt, where he spent some time, as he himself says, "At Nilus' outlets, by Canopus' strand."
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