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CHAP. IV. 



Journey from Dixan to Adoisua^ Capital of Tigre, 



IT was on Nov. 25th, at ten in the morning, we left Dixan y 

 defcending the very fleep hill on which the town is fitu- 

 ated. It produces nothing but the Kol-quall tree all around 

 it. We palled a miferable village called Hadhadid, and, at 

 eleven o'clock, encamped under a daroo tree, one of the fi« 

 nefl I have feen in Abyffinia, being 7! feet diameter, with a 

 head fpreading in proportion, Handing alone by the fide 

 of a river which now ran no more, though there is plenty 

 of fine water ftill ftagnant in its bed. This tree and river is 

 the boundary of the territory, which the Naybe farms from 

 Tigre, and Hands within the province of Baharnagafh, called 

 Midre Bahar. 



Hagi Abdelcader had attended us thus far before he 

 left us ; and the noted Saloomc came likewife, to fee if 

 fome occaiion would offer of doing us further mifchief ; but 

 the king's fervants, now upon their own ground, began to 

 take upon them a proper confequence. One of them went 



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