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ot the numberless streams that, joining the 

 small river Dinkee near to Farree, flow into 

 Lee Adu. This lake formed a bright feature of the 

 scene, embosomed in the dark green belt of forest 

 that marks the course of the Hawash; beyond 

 which the sandy plains of Adal, blending with a 

 colourless sky, constituted an horizon in which 

 sight was lost. 



Between the two strongly contrasted yet equally 

 beautiful scenes I could have oscillated the whole 

 day, had not I been reminded by Mr. Scott that 

 breakfast would be waiting for us at Ankobar. At 

 this touching appeal I urged on my mule, who 

 now rested herself by a gallop along the very level 

 summit of the ridge that, like a natural suspension 

 bridge, is extended from the hill of Ankobar in 

 the west to that of Lomee on the south, and forms 

 the boundary between these bearings of the upper 

 portion of the Dinkee valley. 



In two or three places I noticed that the other- 

 wise narrow ridge spread out into little flats of 

 about fifty yards across. As we passed the first of 

 these, a small heap of stones, surmounted by a 

 rude wooden cross, indicated to the passer-by that 

 a church was hidden in the grove of kolqual and 

 wild fig-trees that occupied the limited expansion. 

 Each of Mr. Scott's servants most reverentially dis- 

 mounted to kiss the topmost stone, on which the 

 cross stood. A little beyond, the road again con- 

 tracted, and from the back of my mule, by merely 



