118 COURSE OF THE GIBBEE. 



early state of society, when Abyssinia was the 

 centre of all civilization in the world. 



After flowing some distance to the sonth and 

 east, the Gibbee was represented to me as taking 

 a course similar to that of the Abi around Gojam, 

 nearly encircling the kingdom of Zingero, which is 

 separated from Gurague by this very stream, then a 

 large river, and still flowing to the south. After 

 passing westward between Zingero and Kuffah, the 

 Gibbee then takes the name of Ankor from the 

 principal province of Zingero which borders upon 

 it, and in which the King resides; it then bends 

 towards the north and west, passing to the south 

 of Enarea, where it is called Durr, and receives a 

 large river, the Omo, coming from Kuffah. From 

 several reasons I believe the Omo to be the main 

 branch, and the Durr merely another name for it ; 

 however, as some large stream does join the Gibbee 

 from the south, I have so designated in my map 

 one which I have laid down as coming from that 

 direction. After the Gibbee has passed Enarea, it 

 flows to the west of Limmoo, where it is best known 

 as the Abiah, the common Galla name of the large 

 river which, in that situation, breaks from the table- 

 land, and then proceeds towards the north some 

 distance through the country of the Shankalli 

 before it receives, in the neighbourhood of Fazuglo, 

 the waters of the Abi, which drains northern Abys- 

 sinia. After the junction of these two, the name 

 Gibbee then re-assumes in part its most ancient 



