in the 3Iountains of the Moon. 245 



called the Doha; it does not join the Govind, being lost 

 among some hills before it reaches so far south. It appears 

 to be (from the accounts of the reporter, an intelligent 

 Soomaulee) a branch of the Zebee,* which he calls the Da- 

 waha, where the Doho joins. The other and principal 

 branch (he says) runs thi'ough Africa, and disembogues on 

 the coast of Adel, near Burburreea." Confused, and in 

 some parts erroneous, as these particulars are, it is, I appre- 

 hend, clear that the river Dawaha, which Captain Smee sup- 

 poses to be the Zebee, is the Hawash ; a river which truly 

 goes through the country of the Adal or Danakil, and ap- 

 proaches the Indian Ocean, but without entering it, behind 

 Tadjuri'ah, and, consequently, at no very great distance from 

 Berberah. The supposition that a water-communication 

 exists between these two streams, the Dawaha or Hawash, 

 and the Doho or Nile of Mdkdashu, is merely the result of 

 the erroneous native notion, which has been already com- 

 mented on, respecting rivers whose sources are contiguous. 



More I'ecently, this river Doho has been visited by Lieu- 

 tenant Christopher of the Indian Navy, who appears not to 

 have heard it called by any name except the generic appel- 

 lation "Wabbi," and who, in consequence, designated it 

 Haines's river.f His detailed description of it fully con- 

 firms the briefer one of Captain Smee, with the addition 

 that the river terminates in an extensive lake. This lake, 

 according to Dr Krapf, is called Balli, + which is manifestly 

 the iVbbale of M. d'Abbadie ; § and the river itself — the 

 Wabbi, or Haines's river — is stated by that missionary || to 

 rise at Adari or Harrar, a large town situate in about 9° 20' 

 N. lat. and 42° 30' E. long. With respect to this latter 

 fact, there appears to be no room for doubt ; a mass of de- 

 tails collected by M. d'Abbadie at Berberah, and published 



* The Zebee was twice crossed, in 1613, by the Jesuit missionary, Antonio 

 Fernandez. In the maps, it is usually made to fall into the Indian Ocean, but 

 erroneously ; it being, in fact, the same as the Gihle of Endrea, which is a tribu- 

 tary of the Nile. See Athenceum of the 30th Oct. 1848, No. 1044, p. 1106. 



t Journ. Roy. Oeo'jr. Hoc. vol. xiv., p. 79, et seq. 



\ Church MUsionarij Record (Jan. 1845), vol. xvi., p. 9. 



§ See page 241. || Loc. cit. 



