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an entire month before they come to another river, 

 the Kalli, to convey them to their destination. 

 The Whabbee and the Kalli, therefore, can neither 

 of them be supposed to be the lower stream of the 

 Gibbee; but there is a large river of which every Galla 

 speaks who comes from Limmoo, Jimma, and other 

 districts in that neighbourhood; and which flows 

 south, say Mr. M' Queen and Major Harris, whilst 

 Dr. Beke denied its existence altogether, until my 

 views were laid before the Geographical Society. 

 He admitted certainly having heard, the small stream 

 of the Dedassa, flowing into the Abi, in one 

 instance called the Abiah. This gentleman appears 

 to have confounded the names Abi and Abiah, 

 believing that the latter was the Galla pronunciation 

 of the former, and his Geography of Southern 

 Abyssinia being founded upon this supposition, 

 he fell into the opposite error to Major Harris ; and 

 crowded into a position too close upon the south of 

 the Abi, countries which, upon the authority of the 

 latter, have been carried to a situation not far from 

 the equator ; and the Abiah, contrary to any sound 

 information that could possibly have been received, 

 is taken away, to flow through unknown lands to 

 the south and west, where it is made to join the 

 Bahr ul Abiacl. Such are travellers' reports, and I 

 profess to give no better, only that I cannot afford 

 to sacrifice the information I have obtained upon 

 this subject, to the speculative ideas of geographers, 

 however learned, and therefore obstinately persist in 



