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ing who the enemy might be, or what his religion was, if 

 lie attacked us. 



The 26th, at feven in the morning, we left our mod plea- 

 fant quarters under the daroo-tree, and fet forward with 

 great alacrity. About a quarter of a mile from the river 

 we croffed the end of the plain Zarai, already mentioned. 

 Though this is but three miles long, and one where broad- 

 eft, it was the largeft plain we had feen fince our palling 

 Taranta, whofe top was now covered wholly with large, 

 black, and very heavy clouds, from which we heard and 

 faw frequent peals of thunder, and violent ftreams of light- 

 ning. This plain was fown partly with wheat, partly with 

 Indian corn ; the firft was cut down, the other not yet ripe. 

 Two miles farther we palled Addicota, a village planted up- 

 on a high rock ; the iides towards us were as if cut per- 

 pendicular like a wall. Here was one refuge of the Jefuits 

 when banifhed Tigre by Facilidas, when they fled to the re- 

 bel John Akay. We after this palled a variety of fmall vil- 

 lages on each fide of us, all on the top of hills ; Darcotta 

 and Embabuwhat on the right, Azaria on the left. 



At half an hour pall eleven we encamped under a 

 mountain, on the top of which is a village called Hadawi, 

 conlilling of no more than eighty houfes, though, for the 

 prefent, it is the feat of the Baharnagafh. The prefent Ba- 

 harnagafh had bought the little diitnct. that he command- 

 ed, after the prefent governor of Tigre, Michael Suhul, had. 

 annexed to his own province what he pleafed of the old 

 domains, and farmed the other part to the Naybe for a lar- 

 ger revenue than he ever could get from any other tenant. 



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