^01 TRAVELS IN UPPER 



which encompass them, Hke so many verdant 

 islands, floating on the surfcice of a tranquil ba- 

 ison. Towards tlie east, barren mountains, masses 

 of rock, heaped one above another, and devoted 

 to eternal sterihty, present a forbidding uniformity, 

 unless where their clefts display little cottages 

 situated at small distances, and spots of ground 

 covered with various kinds of plants, particularly 

 with the sugar-cane, v/hose green and beautiful 

 colour is very pleasant to the sight. 



Wc sailed past Feshne, a market- town on the 

 western shore, which gives its name (Dsjehel 

 Feshne^ mountain of Feshie) to a mountain, not 

 so high as those which I have just mentioned, but 

 longer. It also renders the navigation more dan- 

 gerous, because having undergone some commo- 

 tion, several fragments of the rock have loosened 

 and rolled into the river. 



The ist of September a dead calm kept us the 

 whole day before Bebe ; we departed thence on 

 the 2d. The chain of mountains of FesJme, which 

 had diminished into little hills of sand, rises again 

 below Bebe, and forms a very high and rounded 

 cape, which confines the course of the river : they 

 call it the mountain oi Ahounoiir, fron> ♦V"^ narn« 

 of a saint, whose burying p' 

 the base. We passed Be - t,^ 



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