444 OF THE DEEP VALLEYS. 



Of the identity of the two people there can be 

 no clonbt, and there is no ethnological fact I 

 observed during my journey of which I am so well 

 satisfied as this. 



The remains of this interesting people in 

 Northern Abyssinia are the Adjows and the 

 Falasha, and if future travellers will expend their 

 resources in exploring Northern Abyssinia, in 

 preference to the far more important examination 

 of its southern portion, they cannot occupy them- 

 selves more advantageously to science than by 

 examining into the customs and characters of the 

 Adjows. I consider it would be a waste of time 

 that could be occupied much better in another direc- 

 tion, or I would, for my own satisfaction, visit the 

 country for this purpose ; but as it is far from 

 difficult and constitutes an excellent probationary 

 journey, I recommend aspirants for fame in the 

 field of African discovery to make this their trial 

 excursion. 



One more remark upon the Southern Gongas of 

 Enarea, Zingero, and Kuffah, and I must close this 

 notice of a very interesting race of man ; and that 

 is to explain the apparent anomaly of their country, 

 situated at such an elevation above the level of the 

 sea as I presume it to be, producing cotton and 

 grapes in profusion. 



The observations of that indefatigable and enter- 

 prising traveller, Dr. Beke, has proved that the river 

 Abi, after flowing a distance of scarcely one hundred 



