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bacca, and afterwards the river Tokoor. At half an hour 

 paft eight we refled there, and three hours after came to 

 the Guangue. The Guangue is the largeft river we had 

 feen in Abyffinia except the Nile and Taccaze. It rifes near 

 Tchelga, or between Tchelga and Nara. It joins the Tacaz- 

 ze in the Barabra, in the kingdom of Sennaar. The two 

 rivers when joined are called the Atbara, which gives its 

 name to the province. It abounds with hippopotami, and 

 crocodiles, chiefly the former, which however we thought, 

 were nioftly fmaller than thofe of the Nile. 



At a quarter after one we came to Mariam-Ohha, and 

 at half pafl three arrived at Hor-Cacamoot. Hor in that 

 country fi^gnifies the dry deep bed of a torrent, which has 

 ceafed to run ; and Cacamoot, the fliadc of death ; fo that 

 Yafine's village, where we now took up our quarters, is call- 

 ed the Valley of the Shadow of Death : A bad omen for 

 weak and wandering travellers as we were, furroundcd by 

 a multitude of dangers, and fo far from home, that there 

 feemed to be but one that could bring us thither. We truft- 

 ed in Him, and He did deliver us. 



Hor-Cacamoot is fituated in a plain in the midft of a 

 wood, fo much only of v/hich has been cleared away as 

 to make room for the miferable huts of which it confifts, 

 and for the fmall fpots of ground on which they fow ma- 

 Ihilla, or maize, to furnifli them with bread. Their other 

 food confifls entirely of the flelh of the elephant and rhino- 

 ceros, and chiefly of the former ; for the trouble of hunt- 

 ing the elephant is not greater than chafing the rhinoceros, 

 and the difference of gain is much fuperior. The elephant 

 has a greater quantity of better flefh, while his large teeth 

 3 are 



