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CHAPTER VI. 



Return to Aliu Amba. — Visited by Hy Soumaulee — Complain of 

 being cheated by Ohined Mahomed. — Christians of Abyssinia 

 and of the Greek Church generally forbidden the use of tobacco. 

 — Miriam's house and furniture.' — Islam contempt for Chris- 

 tianity.' — Evening walk. — Begging monks. 



This morning, Walderheros having hired a mule 

 for two salt-pieces, we proceeded to Aliu Amba. 

 I was not sorry, on reaching the summit of the 

 ridge in front of Ankobar, to see again the Dinkee 

 vale, stretching away before me, studded with 

 eminences and little hill villages. As nearly as 

 possible in the centre of them all, was the flat 

 circumscribed summit of the rock of Aliu Amba, 

 w T hich we did not lose sight of during the whole hour 

 occupied in descending to its foot. The ride was 

 most tiresome, but my mule had more reason to be 

 dissatisfied than myself, and glad she was to be at 

 length ascending the irregular sized steps of dis- 

 placed stones, which leads on to the little plain 

 before we reach the first houses in the town. Here 

 she broke into a gallop, and carried me unre- 

 sistingly across the market-place, and along a 

 narrow winding lane, with thatched houses, each 



