TH-E SOURCE OF THE NILE. 43:5. 



*ncl' fiirprife the Agows, whole children they fell at Cuba, 

 10 the Mahometans^ v/ho tra/Rc tltcre for gold and iuivcs, 

 and get iron and coarfo cotton- cloths in return. Theiz; 

 country is full of woods, and their manner of life the fame 

 .as has been already defcribed' in fj)caking of the other, 

 tribes. 



TiiF. Geefa live clofe upon the Nile, to- which- river they 

 give their own name. It is alfo called Geefa by the Agows,. 

 in the fmall dillridt of Geefiii where it rifcs from. its fource. 

 They never have yet made peace with Abyffinia, are govern- 

 ed by the lieads of families, and live fcparately for the fake 

 of hunting, and, for this rcafon, are ealily conquered. The 

 men are naked; having a cotton rag only about their mid- 

 dle. The nights are veiy cold,, and' they lie round great- 

 fires ; but the fly is not fo dangerous here as to the eaft- 

 ward, fo that goats, in a- fmali number, live here. Their 

 arms are bows, lances, and arrows ; large wooden clubs, with 

 knobs, nearly as big as aman's head, at the end of them ; 

 dieir fliields are oval. They woi-fliip tlie Nile, but no other 

 Fiver, as I have faid before ; it is called Geefa, which, in 

 their language, fignifies the firft Maker, or Creator. They 

 imagine its water is a cure for moll difeafes. 



East of the Qeefa is Wumbarea, which reaches toBelay». 

 The king fell firft on the Geefa, part of- whom he took, and 

 the reft he difperfed.. He then turned to the right through 

 Wumbarea^ and met with fome reftftance in the narrow- 

 pafTes in the mountains, in one of which Kafmati Kofte, (one 

 of his principal officers) a man of low birth, but raifed by 

 his merit to his prefent rank, was flainby an arrow. 



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