122 OF THE RIVER KALLI 



Gochob is admitted to be that river, some other 

 embouchure must be procured for the latter. 



Denying, in this manner, the connexion of the 

 Gibbee with the Gochob of Dr. Beke, for every 

 Abyssinian informant states positively that the 

 Gibbee does not go to the Whabbee, and which, as 

 far as I can judge, appears to be the original of the 

 Gochob, there is but one other river flowing to the 

 south, which the Gibbee can be supposed to join. 

 This is the Kalli, which empties itself into the 

 Indian Ocean by many mouths, about three degrees 

 south of the equator, the principal of which 

 appears to be that of Lamoo. No traveller gives 

 any account of this river, though certainly it is a 

 most important one in connexion with our future 

 intercourse with the high land of Abyssinia. It is, 

 as its name, Kalli, implies, a river of the black 

 people, as the Assabi, or Zebbee, of the table land 

 above belongs exclusively to the country of a red 

 race. The Portuguese name, Killimancy, is merely 

 the addition of a word, signifying river in the 

 Shankalli language, to the original Arian term, 

 Kalli. The sources of this river are upon the 

 southern scarp of the Abyssinian table land, in the 

 same manner as the tributaries of the Hawash arise 

 upon the eastern border. The two principal 

 branches of the Kalli, I was told, enclose or receive 

 in the bifurcation, the termination of the table land 

 to the south. 



A considerable degree of interest attaches itself 



