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' and courtfliip was but lofs of time, which always might be 

 employed better to the fatisfacldon of both. Thefe people 

 are lefs gay than thofe at Kella, and their converfation more 

 rough and peremptory. They understood both the Tigre 

 language and Amharic, although we mppofed it was in 

 compliance to us that they converfed chiefly in the former. 



Our tent was pitched at the head of Ingerohha, on the 

 north of the plain of Tabulaque. This river rifes among 

 the rocks at the bottom of a little eminence, in a fmall 

 flream, which, from its fource, runs very fwiftly, and the 

 water is warm. The peafants told us, that, in winter, in 

 time of the rains, it became hot, and fmoked. It was in 

 tafte, however, good ; nor did we perceive any kind of mi- 

 neral in it. Tabulaque, Anderafla, and Mentefegla belong 

 to the Shum of Addergey, and the viceroy of Samen, Ayto 

 Tesfos. The large town of Hauza is about eight miles 

 fouth-and-by-eafl of this. 



On the 28th, at forty minutes paft fix o'clock in the morn- 

 ing, we continued our journey ; and, at half paft feven, faw 

 the fmall village Motechaon the top of the mountain, half a 

 mile fouth from us. At eight, we crofled the river Aira ; and, 

 at half paft eight, the river Tabul, the boundary of the di- 

 flricl: of Tabulaque thick covered with wood, and efpecially a 

 fort of cane, or bamboo, foiid within, called there Shemale, 

 which is ufed in making fhafts for javelins, or light darts 

 thrown from the hand, either on foot or on horfeback, at 

 hunting or in war. 



We alighted on the fide of Anderafla, rather a fmall 

 ftream, and which had now ceafed running, but which 



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