VI CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XV. 



PAGE 



Market day in Aliu Amba. — Toll of wares. — Court of Pie- 

 poudre. — Appearance of the market. — The salt money. — 

 Character of the different vendors. — The prices of several 

 articles. — No Jews in Abyssinia 227 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Visit from Sheik Tigh. — Strange news. — Arrival of Abdoan- 

 arch. — Situation of my house. — Wallata Gabriel. — Baking 

 bread. — Vapour bath. — Cure for hernia 247 



CHAPTER XVII. 



Determine to be cupped. — Mode of operating. — Medical know- 

 ledge of the Shoans. — Surgery. — Remarks upon their 

 diseases and their remedies. — The cosso tree. — Mode of 

 using the cosso. — Other curative processes. — Manufacture 

 of gunpowder. — Success. — Health improving 262 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Start for Myolones. — Account of the road. — -Effect of the 

 earthquake. — Dangerous passage. — Ford the Gindebal 

 wans. — Dubdubhee. — Reach Myolones.- — Remarks upon 

 taking possession of the land 278 



CHAPTER XIX. 



Examination of the gunpowder. — Tinta in disgrace. — The 

 remedy. — The scribes, or dupteraoitsh.- — Their mode of 

 writing. — Audience with the Negoos. — Memolagee. ■ — 

 College of priests. — My new residence. — Night of storm. — 

 Uncomfortable situation. — Weather clears up. .... 289 



