THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. ,g'j 



faid, at Dobarke, which fhewed me they did not wholly 

 depend upon the herbs of Waldubba for their fupport. 

 The women were flout and young, and did not feem, by 

 their complexion, to have been long in the mortifications 

 of Waldubba. I rather thought that they had the appear- 

 ance of healthy mountaineers, and were, in all probability; 

 part of the provifions bought for the convent ; and, by the 

 fample, one would think the monks had the firfl choice of 

 the market, which was but fit, and is a cuftom obferved 

 likewife in Catholic countries. The men feemed very mi- 

 ferable, and ill-clothed, but had a great air of ferocity and 

 pride in their faces. They are diftinguifhed onlv from the 

 laity by a yellow cowl, or cap, on their head. The . . h 

 they wear round them is likewife yellow, but in winter 

 they wear ferns dyed of the fame colour. 



• On the 8th, at three quarters pall fix o'clock in the morn- 

 ing, we left Dippebaha, and, at feven, had two fmall villages 

 on our left ; one on the S. E. diftant two miles, the other on 

 the fouth, one mile off. They are called Wora, and fo is 

 the territory for fome fpace on each fide of them ; but, 

 beyond the valley, all is Shahagaanah to the root of Lamal- 

 mon. At a quarter pail feven, the village of Gingerohha 

 was three miles on our right ; and we were now attending 

 Lamalmon, through a very narrow road, or rather path, for 

 it fcarcely was two feet wide any where. It was a fpiral 

 winding up the fide of the mountain, always on the very 

 brink of a precipice. Torrents of water, which in winter car- - 

 17 prodigious ftones down the fide of this mountain, had di- 

 vided this path into feveral places, and opened to us a view 

 of that dreadful abyfs below, which few heads can (mine 

 at ieail could not) bear to look down upon. We were here 



* obliged 



