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©ragne, where the latter was flain, and an end, for a time, 

 put°to the moil difailrous war that ever Abyffinia was en- 

 gaged in. At half after eleven we paffed Guanguera on our 

 left hand ; it is a collection of many villages, at about ten 

 miles diftance ; and at mid- night we had Degwaffa on our 

 right and Guanguera on our left. At half pail twelve we 

 again relied at the fide of a fmall river, of which I know not 

 the name: we were now in the flat country of Maitfha, de- 

 fending very gently fouthward. At three quarters part one 

 in the morning of the firft of November I alighted at two 

 fmall villages, whofe huts were but jail finifhed, about 500 

 yards from the two trees that were in the front of our army, 

 when after pafling the Nile at that dangerous ford near the 

 jemm'a, we offered Fafil battle at Limjour, which was the 

 place we were now again come to, but in better health and 

 fpirits than before. 



Shalaka Woldo, upon my obferving to him that I was 

 happy to fee the people again railing their houfes which 

 Michael had deftroyed, faid, with a barbarous kind of fmile, 

 « Aye, and fo am I too ; for if thofe two villages had not been 

 built, we mould have had no fire- wood at Kelti to-night;" by 

 which he meant, that the Galla, who were behind him, and 

 whofe next flation was the banks of the river Kelti, would 

 pull down all the new-built houfes, in order to carry fire- 

 wood along with them ; and indeed we faw traces of fome 

 houfes which had been newly built, and Hill as newly de- 

 ftroyed, the wood of which, partly kindled, and partly lying 

 on the ground, ferved us for'our fire that night at Kelti. I 

 found myfelf exceedingly indifpofed, and could fcarcely 

 force on a couple of hours tin '.her, when we came to the 



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