430 SEND LETTER TO SIIOA. 



as far as the bases of the hills of Hyhilloo and 

 Abhidah. In the south-west the table mountain of 

 Afrabah, cut off as it seemed from the ridge of 

 Goror and of Oburah, on which is situated the cele- 

 brated city of Hurrah, at the distance of about 

 sixty miles. Our halting-place was called Mullu, 

 and the whole plain, north and south, bore the 

 same general designation. 



After getting into my hut, my first business was 

 to send for Ohmed Mahomed, to consult respecting 

 the letter that was to be forwarded to Shoa. Esau 

 Ibrahim was sent for, and willingly undertook, for 

 two dollars, to be the bearer. The letter was 

 written and ready for him long before evening, but 

 as the tribes now between us and the Hawash were 

 hostile to Kafilahs or their messengers proceeding 

 through their country, he was obliged to defer his 

 departure until night. As he asserted that he 

 should be able to deliver the letter in three days, 

 I began to entertain some hopes of getting through 

 the country; and before he started, by the inter- 

 preting assistance of my servant Allee, I charged 

 him with an abundance of verbal messages to the 

 officers of the British Mission in Ankobar, to induce 

 them to come and meet me, which, in my ignorance 

 of Shoan policy, I thought they might do, even so 

 far as the banks of the Hawash. A most affectionate 

 and sincere leave-taking passed between Esau 

 Ibrahim and myself, and very soon after he had 

 taken his departure, I went to sleep in peace. 



