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for their fize, quantity, or goodnefs. The bell are thofe of 

 Mai Gogua, a clear and pleafant rivulet, running very vio- 

 lently and with great noife. This circumftance, and igno- 

 rance of the language, has milled the reverend father Je- 

 rome, who fays, that the water of Mai Gogua is called fo 

 from the noife that it makes, which, in common language, 

 is called guggling. This is a miflake, for Mai Gogua Sig- 

 nifies the river of owls.. 



There are many agreeable fpots to the foufh-eaft of the 

 convent, on the banks of this river, which are thick-fhaded 

 with wood and bullies. Adowa confifts of about 3oohoufes 

 and occupies a much larger fpacc than would be thought 

 necefTary for thefe to ftand on, by reafon that each houfe 

 has an inclofure round it of hedges and trees • the la.il 

 chiefly the wanzey. The number of thefe trees fo planted 

 in all the towns, fcreen them fo, that, at a diftance, they 

 appear fo many woods. Adowa was not formerly the capi- 

 tal of Tigre, but has accidentally become fo upon the accef- 

 fion of this governor, whofe property, or paternal eftate, 

 lay in and about it. His manfion-houfe is not dillinguifh- 

 ed from any of the others in the town uniefs by its fize ■ 

 it is fituated upon the top of the hill. The perfon who is 

 Michael's deputy, in his abfence, lives in it. It refembles ar 

 prifon rather than a palace ; for there are in and about it 

 above three hundred perfons in irons, fome of whom have 

 been there for twenty years, moflly with a view to extort 

 money from them ; and, what is the moll unhappy, even 

 when they have paid the fum of money which he afks, do 

 not get their,deliverance from his mercilcfs hands; mofl of 

 them are kept in cages like wild beafts, and treated every 

 way in the fame manner. 



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