468 AN INTERESTING VIEW. 



until it rests upon the town of Farree, which, plainly 

 visible, occupies the summits of some hills, that 

 overtopped the intervening heights, and is distant 

 about fifteen miles from Azbotee, in a straight line. 



In the neighbourhood of Farree, coronets of 

 smoke surmounting many a hilltop, told of villages 

 and human life, and dotted with small white clouds 

 the amphitheatre behind. 



Ohmed Medina, with an obliging interest in my 

 being amused, pointed out the situation of succeed- 

 ing towns, to the distant centre of the highest 

 ridge, where he placed Ankobar, the capital of 

 Shoa ; whilst Ohmed Mahomed and Ebin Izaak, 

 with the same instinctive participation in the plea- 

 sure I felt, as a stranger, upon first witnessing the 

 splended prospect that lay before me, assisted in 

 explaining the natural panorama ; the former sitting 

 upon the half-detached branch of an elephant-torn 

 mimosa, under which Ave were standing, and Ebin 

 Izaak, with outstretched hand, the other resting 

 on my shoulder, followed the direction of Ohmed 

 Medina's spear, to aid me in letting fall my 

 observation upon the exact spot, by directing me 

 to look at white patches of smoke, to the dark 

 shadow of a cloud, to red-coloured earth, or to 

 anything of a prominent character, by which I 

 could distinguish each locality as it was named by 

 Ohmed Medina. Thus was my eye conducted, and 

 thus my view travelled, until the diminishing effects 

 of distance gradually confounded particulars, and 



