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and of little efteem, owing to the lupine flowers on which the 

 bees feed, and of which a great quantity covers the whole 

 face of the country; this gives a bitternefs to the greateft part 

 of the honey, and occafions, as they believe, vertigo's, or diz- 

 zinefles, to thofe that eat it : the fame would happen with 

 the Agows, did they not take care to eradicate the lupines 

 throughout their whole country. 



All this little territory of Aroofli is by much the mofl 

 pleafant that we had feen in Abyflinia, perhaps it is equal 

 to any thing the eaft can produce ; the whole is finely (haded 

 with acacia- trees, I mean the acacia vera, or the Egyptian 

 thorn, the tree which, in the fultry parts of Africa, produces 

 the gum-arabic. Thefe trees grow feldom above fifteen or 

 fixteen feet high, then flatten and fpread wide at the top, 

 and touch each other, while the trunks are farafunder, and 

 under a vertical fun, leave you, many miles together, a free 

 fpace to walk in a cool, delicious fhade. There is fcarce 

 any tree but this in Maitfha ; all Guanguera and Wainade- 

 ga are full of them ; but in thefe lad-mentioned places, 

 near the capital, where the country grows narrower, being 

 confined between the lake and the mountains, thefe trees 

 are more in the way of the march of armies, and are 

 thinner, as being conftantly cut down for fuel, and never 

 replanted, or fuffered to replace themfelves, which the) o- 

 therwife would do, and cover the whole face of the coun- 

 try, as once apparently they did. The ground below tbofe 

 trees, all throughout Aroofli, is thick covered with lupines, 

 almoft to the exclusion of every other flower ; wild oars alfo 

 grow up here fpontaneoufly to a prodigious height and 

 (ize, capable often of concealing both the horfe and his 

 rider, and fome of the italks being little lefs than an inch 

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