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to touch the body ; he had been ham flrung, and his throat 

 cut, a performance probably o£ the neighbouring Shangal- 

 la. At fifty minutes pail ten, our route being weft, we 

 pafTed under a hill a quarter of a mile on our right, upon 

 which is a village called Salamgue. At a quarter paft ele- 

 ven we crolTed the fmall river of Kantis ; and a quarter of an 

 hour afterwards we afcended a hill upon which ftands a 

 village of that name, inhabited by Mahometan Shangalla 

 of the tribe of Baafa. 



On the 20th we proceeded but a mile and a half; our 

 beafts and ourfelves being equally fatigued, and our cloaths 

 torn all to rags. Guanjook is a very delightful fpot by the 

 river fide ; fmall woods of very high trees interfperfed with 

 very beautiful lawns ; feveral fields alfo cultivated with 

 cotton ; variety of game (efpecially Guinea fowls, in great 

 abundance) and, upon every tree, perroquets, of all the dif- 

 ferent kinds and colours, compofe the beauties of Guan- 

 jook. I faw no parrots, and fuppofe there were none ; but 

 on firing a gun, the firft probably ever heard in thofe 

 woods, there was fuch a fcreaming of other birds on all 

 fides, fome flying to the place whence the noife <:ame, and 

 fome flying from it, that it was impofilble to hear di- 

 fl;in<5lly any other found. It was at this place that I fhot 

 that curious bird called the Erkoom * in Amhara ; the 

 Abba Gumba, in Tigre; and here at Guanjook, Tcir elNaciba^ 

 or the Bird of Deftiny. 



On the 22d, at three quarters pafl fix we left Guanjook, 

 and a few minutes after pafiTed a fmall river called Gum- 



S f 2 bacca, 



* See the article Erkoom in the Appendix. 



