THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 'y^^rJ 



the king's demand being lefTened, many people have left it, 

 and are gone to Tcherkin. 



I HAVE feveral times, in the courfe of this work, taken 

 notice of a black nation called Shangalla, who furrround 

 all the N. N. W. and N. E. of Abyfhnia, by a belt fcarcely 

 fixty miles broad. This is called by the Abyffinians, Kolla, 

 or the Hot Country, which is likewife one of their names 

 for hell. Two gaps, or fpaces, made for the fake of com- 

 merce, in this belt, the one at Tchelga, the other at Ras el 

 Feel, have been fettled and pofTelTed by ftrangers, to keep 

 thefe Shangalla in awe ; and here the cuflom-houfes were 

 placed, for the mutual intereft of both kingdoms, before all 

 intercourfe was interrupted by the impolitic expedition of 

 Yafous againft Sennaar. Ras el Feel divides this nation of 

 woolly-headed blacks into two, the one welt below Kuara, 

 and bordering on Fazuclo (part of the kingdom of Sen- 

 naar) as alfo on the country of Agows. Thefe are the 

 Shangalla that traffic in gold, which they find in the earth, 

 where torrents have fallen from the mountains ; for there 

 is no fuch thing as mines in any part of their country nor 

 any way of colleifting gold but tliis ; nor is there any gold 

 found in Abyffinia, however confidently this has been ad- 

 vanced ; neither is there gold brought into that kingdom 

 from any other quarter but this whicli we are now ipeak- 

 ing of ; notwithftanding all the mifreprefentations of the 

 miffionaries to make the attempts to fubdue this king- 

 dom appear more lucrative and lefs ridiculous to Euro- 

 pean princes. The other nation, on the frontiers of 

 Kuara, has Ras el Feel on the eaft, about three days 

 journey from the Cacamoot. The natives are called Gan- 



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