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 THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 501

and foon after a fmaller, called Ghelghel Derma. In the afternoon, at a quarter paft three, we pafTed another river, called Gavi-Corra ; thefe, like the others, all point as radii to the center of the lake, in which they empty themfelves. A little before four o'clock we encamped on the fide of the river Kemona. Upon the hill, on the other fide of the river, ftands the village of that name; it was full of cattle, very few of which we had feen during the fore-part of the jour- ney ; we had all that day travelled fix hours and a quarter, which we computed not to exceed 14 miles : the reafon of this flownefs was the weight of my quadrant, which, though divided into two, required four men to carry it, tied upon bamboo, as upon two chair-poles. The time- keeper and two telefcopes employed two men more. We pitched our tent on the fide of the river, oppofite to the village, and there palled the night.

On the 29th of October, at feven in the morning, we left our ftation, the river Kemona ; our direction was W. S. W. after, about an hour, we came to a church called Abba Abraham, and a village that goes by the fame name ; it is immediately upon the road on the left hand. At the diftance of about a mile are ten or twelve villages, all belonging to the Abuna, and called Ghendi, where many of his predecef- fors have been buried. The low, hot, unwholefome, woody part of the Abyffinian Kolla, and the feverifh, barren pro- vince of Walkayt, lay at the diftance of about fourteen or fixteen miles on our right. We had been hitherto amend- ing a gentle rifing-ground in a very indifferent country, the fides of the hill being fkirted with little rugged wood, and full of fprings, which join as they run down to the low coun- try of Walkayt. We faw before us a fmall hill called Guarre,

which.