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crossed the river Gibbee where it passes to the 

 south of Enarea, and he stated positively that it 

 flowed into the Abiah, and so far gratified Ibrahim, 

 who had so described it to me in his geography of 

 Southern Abyssinia. One circumstance favourable 

 for my proper understanding of the true situation 

 of the countries he described as having passed 

 through in his several journeys was, that Karissa 

 had crossed the Hawash at Mulkukuyu, so we had 

 at once a standard of distance that both of us 

 knew, and this aided me materially in correcting 

 the situations of many places with the names and 

 relative positions of which I was already familiar 

 from my conversations with Ibrahim. 



Respecting Ankor, Karissa stated it to be a part 

 of Enarea, and not of Zingero. He did not know 

 whether it had ever formed part of the latter 

 country, which I had heard from another authority, 

 a Christian duptera, who told me he had read it in 

 a book belonging to the church of St. Michael, in 

 Ankobar (where the Negoos deposits the greater 

 part of his manuscript volumes), that Anquor, or 

 Ankor, was a province of Zingero. Be that as it 

 may, from Ankobar to Ankor is three times the 

 distance between the former place to the ford over 

 the Hawash, or about 150 miles. Zingero was about 

 the same distance, directly to the south-west, whilst 

 Ankor, or that part of Enarea which borders on 

 the Gibbee, was nearly to the west-south-west. The 

 sources of the Gibbee were not more than eighty 



