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road to Gurague, and accordingly it is the one 

 principally taken by slave merchants, who, how- 

 ever, seldom return that way, preferring a more 

 circuitous one, around the sources of the Hawash, 

 among the tribes situated upon the table land of 

 Abyssinia. Adjoining to the Gallahn Galla are 

 the Aroosee, a powerful and warlike nation of the 

 same people, but who appear to be considerably in 

 advance of their barbarous brethren. The Aroosee 

 are large agriculturists, and great quantities of 

 coffee, and of a red dye, called ivurrsee, which is 

 exported from Berberah to India and Arabia, is 

 produced in their country. They occupy all the 

 district between Hawash and the north-w T estern 

 streams of the Whaabbee. Where they terminate 

 on the east, the possessions of the Hittoo Galla com- 

 mence, who also "drink of the waters of the Hawash," 

 and are, it will be recollected the tribe, some of 

 whom attacked the Kafilah of the Hy Soumaulee, at 

 Dophan, on the occasion of my coming up to Shoa. 

 On a map of a limited size, it would be impossible 

 to introduce the names of the numerous tribes of 

 these people that border upon Shoa to the south, 

 nor would any benefit arise from the list beyond 

 that which may be obtained by the general desig- 

 nation, i; Galla tribes," and which I have, therefore, 

 employed to mark the localities of these people. 



