iC>2 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



On the 27th of January, a little pad fix in the mornings 

 we continued fome fhort way along the river's fide, and, at 

 forty minutes paft fix o'clock, came to Ingerohha, a fmall 

 rivulet riling-, in the plain above, which, after a fhort courfe 

 through a deep valley, joins theTacazze: At half paft feven 

 we left the river, and began to afcend the mountains, which 

 forms the fouth fide of the valley, or banks of that river. 

 The path is narrow, winds as much, and is as fteep as the 

 other, but not fo woody. What makes it, however, ftillmore 

 difagreeable is, that every way you turn you have a perpen- 

 dicular precipice into a deep valley below you. At half paft 

 eight we arrived at the top of the mountain ; and, at half 

 paft nine, halted at Tabulaque, having all the way paffed 

 among ruined villages, the monuments of Michael's cruelty 

 or juftice ; for it is hard to fay whether the cruelty, robber- 

 ies, and violence of the former inhabitants did not deferve • 

 the fevereft chaflifement. 



We faw many people feeding cattle on the plain, and we 

 again opened a market for flour and other provifions, which i 

 we procured in barter for cohol, incenfe, and beads. None 

 but the young women appeared. They were of a lighter; 

 colour, taller, and in general more beautiful than thofe at 

 Kella. Their nofes feemed flatter than thofe of the Abyf- 

 finians w€ had yet feen. Perhaps the climate here was be- 

 ginning that feature fo confpicuous in the negroes in ge- 

 neral, and particularly of thofe in this country called Shan- 

 galla, from whofe country thefe people are not diftant above 

 two days journey. They feemed inclined to be very hard 

 in all bargains but thofe of one kind, in which they were 

 mod reafonable and liberal. They all agreed, that thefe 

 favours ought to be given and not fold, and that all coynefs 



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