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Shimbra Zuggan, and encamped about two hundred yards 

 from it. The valley of that name is more broken and un- 

 even than any part we had met with fince we alcended La- 

 malmon. The valley called alio Shimbra Zuggan, is two 

 miles and a half N. by E. on the top of a hill furrounded 

 with trees. Two fmall brooks, the one from S. S. E. the 

 other from S. E. join here, then fall into the rivulet. 



The 13th, at feven in the morning, we proceeded Hill along 

 the plain ; at half pail feven came to Arradara ; and after- 

 wards faw above twenty other villages on our right and left, 

 ruined and deftroyed from the lowed foundation by Ras Mi- 

 chael in his late march to Gondar. At half pail eight the 

 church of Mariam was about a hundred yards on our left. 

 At ten we encamped under Tamarno. The country here is 

 full of people ; the villages are moftly ruined, which, in fome 

 places, they are rebuilding. It is wholly fown with grain 

 of different kinds, but more efpecially with wheat. For the 

 production of this, they have everywhere extirpated the wood, 

 and now labour under a great fcarcity of fuel. Since we paff- 

 ed Lamalmon, the only fubiiitute for this was cows and 

 mules dung, which they gather, make into cakes, and dry 

 in the fun. From Addergey hither, fait is the current 

 money, in large purchafes, fuch as fheep or other cattle ; 

 cohol, and pepper, for fmaller articles, fuch as flour, butter, 

 fowls, &c. At Shimbra Zuggan they firft began to inquire 

 after red Surat cotton cloth for which they offered us thir- 

 teen bricks of fait ; four peeks of this red cloth are efteem- 

 ed the price of a goat. We began to find the price of pro- 

 vifions augment in a great proportion as we approached the 

 capital. 



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