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came to. Saacaho, at half an hour pad one, and there we- 

 rertcd. 



i Sancaho IS an old frontier territory of Abyffinia. The- 

 town may coniHl of about 300 huts or houfcs, neatly built; 

 of canes, and curiouily thatched wirh leaves of the fame. . 

 Ie rifes in the midft of a plain, and refembks in {liape Tcher- 

 kin Amba, though much larger; a conhderable diilritTh all; 

 around belongs to it, of wilds ajid woods, if fuch as thefe, 

 abandoned entirely to wild beails, can be faid to belong to 

 any man. The eall end Slopes with rather a fteep defcent 

 into the plain; and through that is a narrow winding road, , 

 feemingly the work of art, being obrtrucfled at turns by 

 huge Oones, and at difierent ftages, for the pin-pofe of de- 

 fence by guns or arrows ; ail the other fides of tlie rock arc 

 perpendicular precipices. The inhabitants of the town are • 

 Baafa, a race of Shangalla, converted to the Mahometan re- 

 ligion ; it is an abfolute government, has a nagareet or 

 kettle-drum for proclamations, yet is underllood to be in- 

 ferior to Ras el Feel, and dependent on it ; and always fub- 

 jeA to that nobleman, who is Kafmati of Ras el Feel, fuch, 

 as Ayto Confu then was» after he had refumed his govern- 

 ment at my departure, though during my flay in Abyflinia, 

 jt had devolved upon me by his furrendering it. . 



GiMBARO, the Erbab or chief of Sancaho, was the tallcfl' 

 and ftoutefi man of his nation ; about fix feet fix inches 

 high, andflrongly made in proportion ; hunted always on^ 

 foot ; and was faid, among his people, to have fingly kill- 

 ed elephants with one blow of his fpear. The features of . 

 his face might well be called Kideous ; he paid his part of 

 the revenue in, buffaloes hides, of which the beil fhields were. 



made ; . 



