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river Druma, and afcending a high mountain to the weft, 

 he arrived among a people called the Mophanians, who 

 dwell in caves, and by whom he was well received. The 

 king of this country is an abfolute fovereign, and pufferies a 

 tract of territory ten days journev in length from welt to eaft, 

 and ieven in breadth from north to foutfi. Of the various 

 kinds of fruit-trees found here, the moft remarkable are the 

 dopto and the iniobak. The former hears a kind of apples 

 without pips, of the fize of a hen's egg, having a golden 

 colour, and a tafte like that of lemons. It grows on the 

 mountains, has long, narrow, [harp-pointed leaves, and at- 

 tains to the height of the cherry-tree. The bark refembles- 

 that of the cinnamon-tree, and is prefcrved along with the. 

 fruit, and ufed all the year through as a corroborant. The 

 ittkoiak tree bears a fruit of the nut fpecies as large as an, 

 ego-: it is of an oblonsr form, and has a red hufk, which in 

 all probability would afford a good colour for dyeing. Our 

 traveller obferved that the earthen-ware ufed by the inhabit- 

 ants was dyed with it, and that it retained its beauty even in 

 the fire. The nut itfelf is white, and taftes like cinnamon. 

 The tree is as large as the oak, and all the year through bears 

 fruit and bloffbms at the fame time. 



After leaving thefe people, our author profeeuted his journey 

 through the villages of.Ohgothen, Uhroh, and JMato, to 

 Ocvmoro, the refidence of the king, where he was placed 

 among the roval (laves; but, finding means to effect his 

 efcape acrofs the fandy deferts, he afcended the Mountains 

 of the Moon, and arrived in the territories of the Vbma- 

 hanians. Thefe people he found hofpitable and good tem- 

 pered; they prefented him with tiger's Hc'h, which he had 

 never before tafted, and, having directed him what courfe to 

 proceed, wifhed him a profperous journey. He now directed 

 his courfe northwards acrofs Dahamta to the kingdom of 

 Vohvagtam ; and (ailing in with fome travelling negroes, 

 who called themfelves Taomuh, he purfued his journey in 

 their company as far as the firft huts on the frontiers of Ba- 

 hura. On the 19th of November he let out with a caravan 

 bound to Vangara, by the way of Vadgayu, Yomv, &c. ; 

 hut, not being able to bear the fatigue of riding, he was left 

 on the road, and fell fick, On his recovery, which took 



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