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2 the 11th we continued our journey in our former road, till we arrived at the church of Abbo; we then turned to the right, our coure N. by E. and at three quarters pat nine relied under the mountain on the right of the valley; our road lay Hill through Goutto, but the country here is neither o well inhabited nor o pleaant as the wet of the Nile. At eleven, going N. N. E. we paed the church of Tzion, about an eight part of a mile ditant to E. N. E.; we here have a ditinct view of the valley thro' which runs the Jemma, deep, wide, and full of trees, which continue up the ides of the mountains Amid Amid. At a quarter pall eleven we pated a mall tream coming from the wet, and at twelve another very dangerous river called Utchmi, the ford of which is in the midil of two cataracts, and the tream very rapid; after paing this river, we entered a narrow road in the midt of bruhwood, pleaant and agreeable, and full of a kind of foxes of a bright gold colour. At three quarters pat one we halted at the houe of Shalaka Welled Amlac, with whom I was well acquainted at Gondar; his houe is called Welled Abea. Abbo, from a church of Abbo about an eight part of a mile ditant.

deferred, till the preent occaion, the introducing of this remarkable character to my reader, that I might not trouble him to go back to pat tranactions that are not of conequence enough to interrupt the thread of my narrative. Soon after I had een part of the royal family, that had