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CHAP. XII. 



Leave Goulto- -Mountains of the Moon-Roguery of 'Waldo our Guide- 

 Arrive at the * Source of the' Nile. 



IT was the 3d of November, at eight o'clock in the morn- 

 ing that we left the village of Goutto, and continued, 

 for the 'firft part of the day, through a plain country full 

 of acacia-trees, and a few of other forts ; but they were all 

 pollards, that is, Hunted, by having their tops cut off when 

 young fo that they bore now nothing but imall twigs, or 

 branches ; thefe, too, feemed to have been lopped yearly. 

 As there appeared no doubt that this had been done pur- 

 pofely, and for ufe, I afked, and was informed, that we were 

 now in the honey country, and that thefe twigs were for 

 making large bafkets, which they hung upon trees at the 

 fides of their houfes, like bird-cages, for the bees to make 

 their honey in them during the dry months ; all the houies 

 we pafTed afterwards, and the trees near them, were fur- 

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