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the devil to do. I therefore hung my arms upon my 

 horfe, and, taking a gun in my hand, wandered among 

 the trees by the road-fide, in purfuit of the doves or pigeons. 

 In a few hours I had lliot feveral fcores of them, efpecially 

 on the banks of the Mai Lumi, or the River of Lemons. 

 We came to it in about an hour from WaaUa, and coallcd 

 it for fome minutes, as it ran north-eaft parallel to our 

 courfe. 



A PRODIGIOUS quantity of fruit loaded the branches of 

 thefe trees even likely to break them ; and thefe were in all 

 ftages of ripenefs. Multitudes of bloflbms covered the op- 

 pofite part of the tree, and fent forth the moft delicious 

 odour poffible. We provided ourfelves amply with this- 

 fruit. The natives make no ufe of it, but we found it a^ 

 great refreflament to us, both mixed with our water, and as- 

 fauce to our meat, of which we had now no great variety 

 fince our onions had failed us, and a fupply of them was no. 

 longer to be procured. 



At fourteen minutes paft feven, continuing norch-well, 

 we croiTed the river Mai Lumi, which here runs well ; and, 

 continuing Hill north- weft, at eight o'clock we came to the 

 mouth of the formidable pafs, Dav-Dohha, which wc en- 

 tered with good countenance enough, having firft reded 

 five minutes to put ourfelves in order, and we found our 

 appetites failing us through exceflive heat. The pafs of 

 Dav-Dohha is a very narrow defile, full of ftrata of rocks, 

 like fteps of ftairs, but fo high, that, without leaping, or 

 being pulled up, no horfe or mule can afcend. Moreover^ 

 the defcent, though fhort, is very ftcep, and almoft choked 

 up- by huge ftones, which the torrents, after wafhing the 



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