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CHAPTER IV. 



Leave Farree for Ankobar. — Description of the road. — Aliu 

 Amba. — Road to Ankobar. — Incidents of the journey. — Vale of 

 the Dinkee river.' — Valley of the Airahra. — Effect of denuda- 

 tion. — Ankobar. — British Residency. — Start for Angolahlah. — 

 Ascent of the Tchakkah. — Road to Angolahlah.' — The town of 

 Angolahlah. — Meet superior officers of Mission. 



May 31st — Long before the sun had appeared 

 upon the horizon our mules were saddled and 

 bridled ; the hotel bill for Mr. Scott and myself 

 duly discharged, by a present of two dollars to the 

 owner of the house where we had been entertained 

 and imprisoned ; farewells were exchanged for the 

 last time with some of my Kafilah friends, and of 

 my escort ; and we were off on our journey to 

 Angolahlah, just as the distant elevated hills 

 near Ankobar, and the ridge or line of the table 

 land of Shoa beyond these, were brightly gilded 

 by the first rays of the rising luminary. Steadily 

 we descended the loose stony declivity of the hill 

 of Farree, then clattered more briskly along a 

 winding road that, taking us round the base of a 

 much higher eminence, shut us out entirely from 

 the sight of the white tobed townspeople, who sat 



