jS8 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



near a church, dedicated to the Virgin, on our left. The cli* 

 mate feemed here moil agreeably mild, the country covered 

 with the moil lively verdure, the mountains with beautiful 

 trees and fhrubs, loaded with extraordinary fruits and 

 flowers. I found my fpirits very much raifed with thefe plea- 

 fmg fcenes, as were thofe of all my fervants, who were, by 

 our converfation, made geographers enough to know we 

 were near approaching to the end of our journey. Both 

 Sfrates and I, out of the Lamb's hearing, had ihot a variety of 

 Cllrjous birds and beails. All but Woldo feemed to have ac- 

 quired new ilrength and vigour. He continued in his air 

 of defpondency, and feemed every day to grow more and 

 more weak. At a quarter pail eleven we arrived at the 

 top of the mountain, where we, for the firil time, came in 

 fight of Sacala, which extends in the plain below from weft 

 to the point of fouth, and there joins with the village cf 

 • Geefli. 



Sacala, full of fmall low villages, which, however, had 

 efcaped the ravages of the late war, is the eailermofl branch 

 cf the Agnws, and famous for the bed honey. The fmall 

 river Kebezza, running from the eail, ferves as a boundary 

 between Sacala and Aformafha ; after joining two other ri- 

 vers, the Gometti and the Googueri, which we prefently 

 came to, after a fhort courfe nearly from S. E. to N. \V. it 

 falls into the Nile a little above its junction with the Aboia. 



At three-quarters pail eleven we crofTed the river Kebez- 

 za, and defcended into the plain of Sacala; in a few minutes 

 we alio paifed the Googueri, a more considerable flream 

 than the former ; it is about iixty feet broad, and perhaps 

 eighteen inches deep, very clear and rapid, running over a 



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