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ed ; but he laid all the blame upon the priefts, of whofe 

 information he was perfectly inflructed. 



At three quarters after ten in the morning we pafled 

 the fmall river Aroom, which either gives its name to, or 

 receives it from the diftrict through which it paiies : it 

 falls into the Nile about four miles below ; is a clear, fmall, 

 brifk ilream ; its banks covered with verdure not to be de- 

 fcribed. At half an hour before noon we came to R#>o; it is 

 a level fpace, fhaded round with trees in a fmall plain, 

 where the neighbouring people of Goutto, Agow, and 

 Maitfha hold a market for hides, honey, butter, and all 

 kinds of cattle. Gold too is brought by the Agows from 

 the neighbouring Shangalla ; all the markets in Abyflinia 

 are held in fuch places as this in the open fields, and un- 

 der the made of trees : every body, while he is there, is fafe 

 under the protection of the government where that mar- 

 ket is kept, and no feuds or private animofities muft be re- 

 fented there ; but they that have enemies muft take care of 

 themfelves in coming and going, for then they are at their 

 own rifk. 



In the dry bed of a river, at the foot of a fmall wood 



before you afcend the market-place at Roo, we found the 



Lamb, cur friend the Jumpers brother, concealed very much 



lik i thief rn a hole, where we might eafily have pafTed 



■him unnoticed; we gave him fome tobacco, of which he 



: ry fond, and a few trifles. We afked him what quef- 



we pleafed about the roads, which he anfwered plain- 



irtly, and difcreetly ; he a flu red us no Maitflia peo- 



p'< ■ ri pafled, not even to the market, and this we found 



. aids was ftrictly true ; for fuch as had intelligence 



a that 



