^75 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



lowed by a whale, or fome other fuch great fifh. They are 

 hewers of wood, and carriers of water, to Gondar, and are 

 held in great deteftation by the Abyffinians. 



We crolTed the river to the miferable village of Door-Mac- 

 ary, which is on the eafi; fide of it ; and there wc took up 

 our quarters, after a fhort but very fatiguing, day's journey. 

 The people Ihewed great figns of uneafinefs upon our firfl 

 appearance, and much relucftance to admit us under their 

 roofs ; and difcovering that we were not any of thofe that 

 had the honour of being defcended from the prophet Jonah, 

 they hid all their pots and drinking-veflcls, left they fliould 

 be prophaned by our ufmg them. From Door-Macary we 

 difcovered a high mountainous ridge, with a very rugged 

 top, ftretching from North to South, and towering up in 

 the middle of the forert, about five miles diftance ; it is call- 

 ed Badjena. 



On the 28th, a little after mid-day, we pafTed Toom Aredo ; 

 and went, firft Eaft, then turned North, into the great road. 

 We foon after paffed a number of villages ; thofe on the 

 high mountain Badjena on the Eaft, and thofe belonging 

 to the church of Kofcam on the Weft, Continuing ftill 

 North, inclining very little to the Weft, we came to a ftecp 

 and rugged defcent, at the foot of which runs the Mogctch, 

 in a courfe ftraigh.t North ; this defcent is called the And. 

 At a quarter paft two we pafled the Mogetch, our direction 

 N. W. It is here a large, fwift running ft ream, perfecftly 

 clear, and we halted fome time to refrefli ourfclves upon 

 its banks ; remembering how very different it was from 

 what we had once left it, difcolourcd Vv'ith blood, and chok- 

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