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as the Tchema, but which, hkc it, joins the Dwang. Here 

 we have a view of the fteep mountain Magwena, where 

 there is a monallery of that name, poffefTed by a multitude 

 of lazy, profligate, ignorant monks. Magwena, excepting 

 one mountain, is a bare, even ridge of rocks, whicli feem- 

 ingly bear nothing, but are black, as if calcined by the fun. 

 In the rainy feafon it is faid every fpecies of verdure is he e 

 in the grcateflluxuriancy ; all the plantations of corn abo ;t 

 Deber are much infefted with a fmall, beautiful, green 

 monkey, with a long tail, called Tota. 



Between three and four in the afternoon we encamped 

 at Eggir Dembic ; and in the evening we pafled along tiie 

 fide of a fmall river running weft, which falls into the Mo- 

 getch. 



I TOOK advantage of the pleafanteft and latefl hour for 

 fliooting the waalia, or the yellow-breafted pigeon, as alfo 

 Guinea-fowls, which are here in great abundance among the 

 corn; in plumage nothing di.Terent from ours, and very ex- 

 cellent meat. The fun was jull fetting, and I was return- 

 ing to my tent, not from wearinefs or futiety of fport, but 

 from my attendant being incapable of carrying the load of 

 game I had already killed, when I was met by a man with 

 whom I was perfet!:fly acquainted, and who by his addrefs 

 likevv^ife feemed no Granger to me. I immediately recol- 

 iedled him to be a fervant of Ozoro Either, but this he de- 

 nied, and faid he was a fervant of Ayto Confu; however, as 

 Confu lived in the fame houfe with his mothei' at Kofcam, 

 the miilake feemed not to be of any moment. He faid he 

 came to meet Ayto Confu, who was expeded at Tcherkin 



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