54a TRAVELS TO DI SCO Vli!R.,r 



leatker, or the hardcft fifli fent from Newfoundland. This- 

 is their provifion for the winter momhs: ■ The^^ iirfl-heat ii? 

 "with a wooden mallet, then boil it, after which they roaft- 

 it upon the embers ; and it is hard enough after it ha^ un-. 

 dergone all thofe operations. 



The Dobenah, the moft powerful of alt the ShangallaV 

 who havea fpeeies of fupremacyor command t)ver all tlie 

 reft of the nations, live altogether upon the elephant or rhi- 

 noceros. In other countries, where there is lefs water, fewer 

 trees, and more grafs, the Shangalla feed chiefly upon more 

 promifcuous kinds of food, as buffaloes^ deer, boars, hons, 

 and fcrpents. Thcfe are the nations nearer the Tacazze,' 

 Ras el Feel, and the plains of Sire in Abyflinia, the chief of 

 which nations is called Baafa. And flill farther well: of the 

 Tacazze, and the valley of Waldubba, is a tribe of thefc, 

 who live chiefly upon the crocodile, hippopotamus, and 

 other fifli ; and, in the fummer, upon locufts, which they 

 boil firft, and afterwards keep dry in baikets, moft curiouf- 

 ly made with fplit branches of trees, fo clofely woven toge- 

 ther as to contain water almoft as well as a wooden vellel. , 



This nation borders nearly upon the Abyffinian hunting- 

 ground; but, not venturing to extend themfelves in thechace 

 of wild bcafts, they are confined to the neighbourhood of 

 the Tacazze, and rivers falling into it, where they fifh in 

 fafety : the banks of that river are deep, interrupted by fl:ecp 

 precipices inacceflible to cavalry, and, from the thicknefs of 

 the woods, full of thorny trees of innumerable fpeeies, al- 

 moft as impervious to foot. Thefe ftreams, pofleflfed only by 

 themfelves, afford the Baafa the moft excellent kinds of fifh 

 in the moft prodigious plenty. 



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