1 5 4 SFOR T IN ABYSSINIA. 



risk bushes fringing the bank of the river. A large 

 herd of hagazin had just been drinking, and they were 

 moving quietly away, the males leading and the 

 hinds following with the little fawns trotting at their 

 feet. The whole scene was really a beautiful one, and 

 I stopped for some little time to admire the view 

 which lay before me. The natives had pointed out 

 the antelope to me, but I was too excited to take 

 any notice, so I gave them a view-halloo, and told the 

 guide to lead me to the bottom of the hill where the 

 river ran. When we got down into the green jungle 

 which fringed the bank of the river it was so high we 

 could not see over it, and pushing on through it, we 

 soon found ourselves on the shingly bed of the river. 

 The water was beautifully clear, and I gladly drank 

 a draught of it. We then forded the river with 

 some of the more lightly-laden donkeys, which had 

 managed to keep up and follow me. Goubasee, on 

 his arrival at the other side, held up his hands and 

 exclaimed, " God has brought us safely here !" I was 

 so pleased to see a large river again that I took off 

 my boots and paddled about in the water, for almost 

 the last fresh-water stream of a good size I had seen 

 was the one on which the Citizen penny steamers 

 glide. 



We had brought down two cows from Adiaboo with 

 us, and these animals were very nearly swept away by 



