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tended by the mot to let us know they were at hand, tho° 

 it was not till near midnight before our long-eared compa- 

 nions joined their mailers. 



We found it impoflible to pitch our tents, from the ex- 

 treme wearinefs in which our lafl night's exertion had left 

 us : But there was another reafon alfo ; for there was not 

 earth enough covering the bare fides of Taranta to hold 

 fall a tent-pin ; but there were variety of caves near us, 

 and throughout the mountain, which had ferved for houfes 

 to the old inhabitants ; and in thefe found a quiet and 

 not inconvenient place of repofe, the night of the 20th of 

 November. 



All this fide of the mountain of Taranta, which we had 

 pafled, was thick-fet with a fpecies of tree which we had 

 never before feen, but which was of uncommon beauty 

 and curious compofition of parts; its name is kol-quall*. 

 Though we afterwards met it in feveral places of Abyffinia, 

 it never was in the perfection we now faw it in Taranta, 



On the 2 ill, at half pad fix in the morning, having en- 

 couraged my company with good words, increafe of wages, 

 and hopes of reward, we began to encounter the other half 

 of the mountain, but, before we fet out, feeing that the afs 

 of the {Iranger Moor, which was bit by the hyama, was in- 

 capable of carrying his loading further, I defired the reft 

 every one to bear a proportion of the loading till we fhould 



arrive 



* See the article kol-quall in the appendix. 



