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at Gondar, and even when the fun was vertical, it never came 

 but with the wind blowing directly from Amid Amid. 



At ten minutes pad three o'clock we croffed the fmall 

 river Iworra, in the valley of Abola ; it comes from the 

 eaft, and runs wefhvard into that river. At a quarter after 

 four we halted at a houfe in the middle of the plain, or 

 valley. This valley is not above a mile broad, the river 

 being diftant about a quarter, and runs at the foot of the 

 mountains. This village, as indeed were all the others 

 we had feen fmce our croffing the Nile at Goutto, was fur- 

 rounded by large, thick plantations, of that fingular plant 

 the Enfete, one of the mofc beautiful productions of nature, 

 as well as mofl agreeable and wholefome food of man. It 

 is faid to have been brought by the Galla from Narea, firft 

 to Maitfha, then to Goutto, the Agows, and Damot, which 

 Jafl is a province on the fouth fide of the mountains of A- 

 mid Amid. This plant, and the root, called Denitch, (the 

 fame which is known in Europe by the name of the Jeru- 

 faiem artichoke, a root deferving more attention than is 

 paid to it in our country,) fupply all thefe provinces with 

 food. 



We were but fcldom lucky enough to get the people of 

 the villages to wait our arrival ; the fears of the march of 

 the Galla, and the uncertainty of their deftination, made 

 them believe always we were detachments of that army, to 

 which the prefence of Fafil's horfe driven conftantly before us 

 very much contributed : we found the village where we a- 

 lighted totally abandoned, and in it only an earthern pot, with 

 a large flice of the Enfete plant boiling in it ; it was about a 

 foot in length, and ten inches broad, and was almoft ready 

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