53* TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



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CHAP. X. 



Leave Samba, and continue our Journey fouthward-^Fall in with Fa- 

 ftYs Pagan Galla — Encamp on the Kelti. 



AT Bamba begins a valley full of fmall hills and trees, 

 all brum-wood, none of them high enough for tim- 

 ber. On the right hand of the valley the hills flope gently 

 up, the ground is firm, and grafs fhort like fheep pafture ; 

 the hills on the left are fleeper and more craggy, the low- 

 er part of the valley had been cleared of wood, and fown 

 with different forts of grain, by the induftry of the inhabi- 

 tants of the village of that name — induftry that had ferved 

 them to very little purpofe, as the encampment of this 

 wild army deftroyed in one night ever)' veftige of culture 

 they had bellowed upon it. 



Shalaka Woldo was not, to all appearance, a man to pro- 

 tect a ftranger in the middle of a retreating army, difband- 



ed 



