5 oo TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



Our quarters here were fo bad that we were impatient 

 to depart, but came to a water juft below Chergue, which 

 quickly made us wifh ourfelves back in the village ; this 

 is a torrent that has no fprings in the hills, but only great 

 bafons, or refervoirs, of ftone ; and, though it is dry all the 

 year elfe, yet, upon a fudden, violent mower, as this was, it 

 fwclls in an inflant, fo that it is impalTable for man or horfe 

 by any device whatever. This violence is of fliort duration; 

 we waited above half an hour, and then the peafants fliewed. 

 us a place, fome hundred yards above, where it was fliallow- 

 er ; but even here we paffed with the utmoft difficulty, from 

 the impetuofity of the dream, after getting all poflible aflift- 

 ance from four people of the village ; but we flood very 

 much in need of fome check to our impatience, fo eager 

 were we to get forward and finifli our journey before fome 

 revolution happened. 



We had not many minutes been delivered from this 

 torrent, before we palled two other rivers, the one larger, 

 the other fmaller. All thefe rivers come from the north- 

 weft, and have their fources in the mountains a few miles 

 above, towards Woggora, from which, after a fliort courfe 

 on the fide of the hills, they enter the low, flat country 

 of Dembca, and are fwallowed up in the Tzana. 



We continued along the fide of the hill in a country very 

 thinly inhabited ; for, it being directly in the march of 

 the army, the peafants naturally avoided it, or were 

 driven from it. Our road was conftantly interfered by 

 rivers, which abound, in the fame fpace, more than in any 

 other country in the world. We then came to the river 

 Derma, the largeft and molt rapid we had j et met with, 



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