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earth from about them, had rolled down from the moun- 

 tain above. Both fides of the defile are covered thick with 

 wood and bufhes, efpecially that deteftable thorn the kan- 

 tuiFa, fojuilly reprobated in Abyffinia. 



Having extricated ourfelves fuccefsfully from this pafs, 

 our fpirits were fo elated, that we began to think our jour- 

 ney now at an end, not refledting how many pafles, full of 

 real danger, were ftill before us. At three quarters pail 

 eight we came to Werkleva, a village of Mahometans. Above 

 this, too, is Armatchiko, a famous hermitage, and around 

 it huts inhabited by a number of monks. Thefe, and their 

 brethren of Magwena, are capital performers in all difor- 

 ders of the ftate ; all prophets and diviners, keeping up the 

 fpirit of riot, anarchy, and tumult, by their fanatical inven- 

 tions and pretended vifions. 



Having refted a few minutes at TabaretWunze, a wretch- 

 ed village, compofed of miferable huts, on the banks of a 

 fmall brook, at a quarter after two we palTed the Coy, a 

 large river, which falls into the Mahaanah. From Mai 

 Lumi to this place the country was but indifferent in ap- 

 pearance ; the foil, indeed, exceedingly good, but a wild- 

 nefs and look of defolation covered the whole of it. The 

 grafs was growing high, the country extenfive, and almofl 

 without habitation, whilil the few huts that were to be feen 

 feemed more than ordinarily miferable, and were hid in re- 

 cedes, or in the edge of valleys overgrown with wood. The 

 inhabitants feemed i-o have come there by Health, with a 

 defire to live concealed and unknown. 



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