a TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



On the nth we continued our journey in our former 

 road, till we arrived at the church of Abbo ; we then 

 turned to the right, our courfe N. by E. and at three quar- 

 ters pail nine relied under the mountain on the right of 

 the valley ; our road lay Hill through Goutto, but the coun- 

 try here is neither fo well inhabited nor fo pleafant as the 

 weft fide of the Nile. At eleven, going N. N. E. we paffed 

 the church of Tzion, about an eight part of a mile diftant 

 to E. N. E. ; we here hav^ a diftincft view of the valley thro* 

 which runs the Jemma, deep, wide, and full of trees, which 

 continue up the fides of the mountains Amid Amid. At a. 

 quarter pall eleven we paffed a fmall flream coming from 

 the weft, and at twelve another very dangerous river called 

 Utchmi, the ford of which is in the midil of two cataradfs, 

 and the ftream very rapid ; after pailing this river, we en- 

 tered a narrow road in the midft of brushwood, pleafant 

 and agreeable, and full of a kind of foxes * of a bright 

 gold colour. At three quarters paft one we halted at the 

 houfe of Shalaka Welled Amlac, with whom I was well 

 acquainted at Gondar ; his houfe is called Welled Abea. 

 Abbo, from a church of Abbo about an eight part of a mile 

 diftant. 



I HAVE deferred, till the prefent occafion, the introducing 

 of this remarkable characler to my reader, that I might 

 not trouble him to go back to paft tranfadtions that are not 

 of confequence enough to interrupt the thread of my nar- 

 rative. Soon after I had feen part of the royal family, that 



had 



* I fuppofe this to be the animal called Lupus Aureus) it is near as large as a wolf, and: 

 lives u£on moles. 



