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to eat herbs together in private upon the. top of the moun- 

 tains. Thefe, on their return, arc fhewn as miracles of hc- 

 linefs, — lean, enervated, and exhaufted. . Whether this is 

 wholly to be laid to the charge of the herbs, is more than 

 I will take upon me to decide, never having been at thefe 

 retirements of Waldubba. 



Violent fevers perpetually reign there. The inhabitants 

 are all of the colour of a corple ; and their neighbours, the 

 Shangalla, by conftant inroads, deftroy many of them, though 

 lately they have been Hopped, as they fay, by the prayers of 

 the monks. I fuppofe their partners, the nuns, had their 

 fhare in it, as both of them are faid to be equally fuperior 

 in holinefs and purity of living to what their predeceffors 

 formerly were. But, not to derogate from the efricaciouf- 

 nefs of their prayers, the natural caufe why the Shangalla 

 moleft them no more, is the fmall-pox, which has greatly 

 reduced their ftrength and number, and extinguiflied, to a 

 man, whole tribes of them. 



The water is both fcarce and bad at Deb ra Toon, there 

 being but one fpring, or fountain, and it was exceedingly 

 ill- tailed. We did not intend to make this a itation ; but, 

 having lent a fervant to Hauza to buy a mule in room of 

 that which the hyaena had eaten, we were afraid to leave 

 our man, who was not yet comeforward, left he fhould fall 

 iu with the Shum of Addergey, who might flop the mule 

 for our arrears of cuftoms. 



The pointed mountain of Dagafhaha continued Hill viable; 

 I fet it this day by the compafs, and it bcre due N.E. We had 

 not :'een any cultivated ground fmce we pafled the Tacazze, 



The 



